Babe Ruth Portrait photograph

Date1940

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Babe Ruth. It is a portrait that shows him from the chest up. Ruth is wearing a robe and looking at the camera. The caption (not shown) reads "Babe Ruth, greatest figure of baseball's modern age, has given up hope of ever returning to the game he glorified for two decades. The Babe, born George Herman Ruth almost 46 years ago, is shown taking life easy amidst countless trophies of his baseball prowess. Although golf and hunting take up much of the former home run king's time, nevertheless he will go South next month to take his place on the faculty of a baseball school. Babe now weighs 243 pounds, 15 or 20 above his playing weight. He has a comfortable home in New York where he lives decorously on the annuiti[...] laid aside from the million dollars he [...]"

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0773

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions6.5 x 8.5 in.

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

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