Babe Ruth Pictures (some RARE ones!)

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Friends -- Although They Can't Come to Terms
81 Years Ago Today - St. Petersburg, FL - March 12, 1933
"Babe Ruth, mighty slugger of the New York Yankees, poses amiably with his "boss", Colonel Jake Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, when the two men met for the first time at the New York team's Florida camp. The picture was made after the men had held a conference as to Ruth's 1933 salary. The Babe demands $60,000 and Colonel Ruppert is said to have offered his drawing card no more than $50,000 for the season."

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Babe Leans Against One
85 Years Ago Today - St. Petersburg, FL - March 16, 1929

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He Refuses To Take A Cut In Salary, But --
81 Years Ago Today - St. Petersburg, FL - March 18, 1933
"He refuses to take a cut in salary, but -- what a cut The Babe is taking out of this lettuce-mayonnaise sandwich "on rye"! It does not interfere with his diet program and is a daily routine at his Florida training camp."

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"Hey, Skinnay!" - Babe Ruth In New Orleans
Spring Training - March 1923
"Hey, Skinnay!" ----- Here's the new "Babe" Ruth, many pounds lighter thanks to the flu, but still able to send 'em over the fence."

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Outfield Aspirants Of The New York Yankees
Spring Training - St. Petersburg, Florida - March 1931
(L-R) Myril Hoag, Earle Coombs, Sam Byrd, Babe Ruth, Allen "Dusty" Cooke & Fred "Dixie" Walker

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The Babe K's Versus The Braves
86 Years Ago Today - St. Petersburg, FL - March 24, 1928
ACME Wire: "Yankees And Boson Braves Play Exhibition Game At St. Petersburg, Florida. - Photo Shows - Babe Ruth striking out, with Taylor catching and Magee umpiring."

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Outfield Aspirants Of The New York Yankees
Spring Training - St. Petersburg, Florida - March 1931
(L-R) Myril Hoag, Earle Coombs, Sam Byrd, Babe Ruth, Allen "Dusty" Cooke & Fred "Dixie" Walker

Sammy Byrd picked up the nickname "Babe Ruth's Legs".

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Sammy Byrd picked up the nickname "Babe Ruth's Legs".

I didn't even notice that when I put together my original post!
Looks like Sam Byrd was quite a golfer...and Babe's road roommate on the Yankees.

More here: WHO THE HECK IS SAM BYRD – PART 2
"Byrd owned and operated a par-three course and driving range in Birmingham, Alabama, and hired Jimmy Ballard, then seventeen and a state amateur junior champ, as his teaching assistant. Byrd, Ballard says, was Babe Ruth’s roommate on the road, “and it was Ruth who taught Sam the trick of holding a handkerchief beneath his left arm in order to keep his left arm ‘connected’ to his body throughout the swing.” Let’s understand that statement! Every golf teacher emphasizes the relationship between the arms and the body and uses the handkerchief drill as a training aide to correctly maintain the relationship. The drill and the connection theory were taught to Sam by Babe Ruth who used it in his powerful swing. Amazing!! Byrd also became convinced that a good golfer, like a slugger, “braced” with his right leg on the backswing, moved the head slightly to the right as the body naturally “coiled,” and obtained power by “firing” the right side of the body at the target. “One swing was on a level plane, the other on a tilted plane,” says Ballard, relating Byrd’s gospel. “Other than that, they were totally identical.”"

So does this explain his nickname?

Sammy Byrd Trades and Transactions (Baseball Almanac)
Nickname: Babe Ruth's Caddy or Babe Ruth's Legs

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Some Very Fortunate Footage
In case you missed it, Tom Shieber (Baseball Hall Of Fame Senior Curator) has a blog called "Baseball Researcher", and his most recent post concerns dating some very rare archival film footage of The Babe. Tom leads us through the search for where/when it was filmed. The footage itself comes from the Moving Image Research Collections - Digital Video Repository at the University Of South Carolina, (mirc.sc.edu). To read the article and see the footage, go here: Baseballresearcher.blogspot.com - "Some Very Fortunate Footage"

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George Herman "Babe" Ruth -Outtakes
September 1, 1925 - New York City

More from the University of South Carolina Archives, amazing footage...wish there was sound!!!

"Description: Scenes of Babe Ruth during his suspension from playing baseball, shown on the roof of his apartment, with Yankee Stadium in the background."

http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A16196

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Bambino And Dempsey Box Draw For Charity
Palm Beach, Florida - February 1929
ACME: "Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, earned a two-round draw when he laced on two right-handed gloves over his huge fists and "boxed" with Jack Dempsey at the Kiwanis Club charity show held at Palm Beach, Fla. Here the two contestants are shown in their fighting pose before their bloody battle."

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New Fad For Hero Worshipers
"Paint Portrait Of Favorite On Skin" - March 1922
Did this ever catch on??? Probably not...
"New fad for hero worshipers is painting on the skin a miniature portrait of your favorite hero, as seen in the above photo. Photo shows Pretty Miss Emlee Haddone having a miniature picture of Babe Ruth painted on her skin."

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Babe Ruth "Training" With The Yankees
St. Petersburg, FL - March 7, 1934
Here's a spring training pic that slipped through the cracks, I meant to post this back in March. The Babe is looking spiffy in his golf course duds, no doubt because he just came from there!

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Jackie Mitchell Shakes Hands With The Babe
83 Years Ago Today - Chattanooga, Tennessee - April 2, 1931
(L-R) Lou Gehrig, Jackie Mitchell, Joe Engel & Babe Ruth
Today marks the anniversary of 17 yr. old Jackie Mitchell's infamous pitching feat of striking out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig at an exhibition game between the Yankees and the Chattanooga Lookouts. By the way, Lou is referred to as "the Late Lou Gehrig" because the wire tag is from the 1950's.

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Jane Gets An Autograph
Hollywood, CA - April 1942
AP Wire: "Film actress Jane Withers, who's usually on the writing end in such affairs, got Babe Ruth to autograph a baseball for her when they both turned out last night for the Pacific Coast League opener between the Oakland and Hollywood clubs here."