Babe Ruth and Whitey Ford Dual photograph

Date1961 October 08

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Babe Ruth and Whitey Ford. The caption (not shown) reads "Cincinnati, Ohio: Fans of baseball great Babe Ruth, barely recovered from the spectacle of Yankee Roger Maris hitting 61 homers, now have a new Ruth-record-breaker to contend with. Whitey Ford, shown in a recent filer, set a new mark of 32 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play, when he teamed with reliever Jim Coates October 8th to throttle the Reds 7-0. The surpassed a lesser known Ruth record of 29 runless frames which the Bambino-to-be (files, circa 1918) chalked up as a pitcher for the Red Sox."

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0757

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

Subject Ford, Whitey, 1928-2020

Subject New York Yankees (Baseball team)

Subject Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)

Subject Major League Baseball (Organization)

Subject American League of Professional Baseball Clubs

Subject National League of Professional Baseball Clubs

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions9.5 x 6 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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