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Babe Ruth Batting photograph

Date1927 September 30

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Babe Ruth batting. The partial caption (not shown), reads "Mickey Mantle (R) cloute [...] fifth inning of the second game 5/30 against this month, Mickey is eleven games ahead of B [...] Ruth hit No. 20 in his fifty-second game on J [...] Day. Ruth is shown in the left photo as he fol [...] record No. 60 on September 30, 1927. A switch [...] lefty and only 3 batting from the right side. [...] slamming out home runs at a faster clip than [...] worthy of Ty Cobb anymore than he can explain [...]when swinging lefty and a 36-ounce bat when hi[...]." It appears that this was separated from a photograph of Mickey Mantle.

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0660

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

Subject New York Yankees (Baseball team)

Subject Major League Baseball (Organization)

Subject American League of Professional Baseball Clubs

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions3.5 x 4.75 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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