One hundred years ago Tuesday, the World Series opened at the Polo Grounds in New York with John McGraw's small ball Giants facing the new age Yankees and their mashing maestro, Babe Ruth. Before the best of nine series was halfway complete, though, the star attraction was down for the count. A nasty scrape to his elbow, suffered in a slide, knocked The Bambino from … [Read more...] about Photo of the Day: Original 1921 Ruth ‘Crown’ Photo Emerges
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New Find of 1921 Tip Top Orioles Includes Grove, 3 Previously Unknown Cards
The population of one of the hobby’s rarest and pre-War minor league sets has grown by one—but the set itself is bigger than previously thought after the additional discovery of three previously unknown players. The fresh find of 1921 White’s Bakery Tip-Top Baltimore Orioles cards is among the highlights in Memory Lane’s newly-launched catalog. The set, collected by … [Read more...] about New Find of 1921 Tip Top Orioles Includes Grove, 3 Previously Unknown Cards
PSA 7 1921 E121 Ruth Card Hits Auction Block
The highest graded example of Babe Ruth’s 1921 E121 American Caramel baseball card – one of only 68 cards known across all three E121 Ruth variations – is on the auction block where it could fetch a six-figure price tag. Graded PSA 7, the card is the headliner in Small Traditions’ Summer Classic Auction set to run through September 1. Opening at … [Read more...] about PSA 7 1921 E121 Ruth Card Hits Auction Block
Rare Ruth Photo Dates to Beginning of His First Yankees World Series
He had just finished a regular season like no other. Fifty-nine home runs broke his own record. He drove in 161 runs, hit.378, scored 177 runs and walked 145 times. It was no surprise that when Babe Ruth took the field for the start of the 1921 World Series that he was surrounded by newspaper writers and photographers. His Yankee career wasn't even a … [Read more...] about Rare Ruth Photo Dates to Beginning of His First Yankees World Series
Babe Ruth: Baller
Baseball season was over, but that didn’t stop baseball’s bright new star from athletic competition in 1921. The RMY Auctions Photo of the Day is a rare image from January of that year featuring the Babe dressed in a basketball uniform, preparing to take the floor against the Boston Celtics in an exhibition game. Auction officials say it’s the only example of Ruth playing … [Read more...] about Babe Ruth: Baller
Photo of the Day: Newly Discovered Image of ‘Bunting Babe’
Freshly uncovered, unique photos of Babe Ruth don’t come around very often but our Photo of the Day is just that. This one appears to show Babe Ruth doing something very un-Ruthlike. The 7x9 ½” image dates to 1921 and comes from a long-forgotten spot in a news archive. The full body image is of the Babe apparently working on his bunting skills or perhaps playing pepper … [Read more...] about Photo of the Day: Newly Discovered Image of ‘Bunting Babe’
Photo of Ruth in Yankees’ 1st World Series Appearance
Babe Ruth was already paying major dividends for the New York Yankees by the time the 1921 World Series rolled around. His acquisition from Boston and the death of the deadball era put baseball on a new course and Ruth began making headlines coast-to-coast. He belted 59 homers during the regular season, driving in 168 runs. But the World Series? Well, that was something … [Read more...] about Photo of Ruth in Yankees’ 1st World Series Appearance