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Incredible Collection of Babe Ruth Sheet Music, Publications and Advertisements.
Lot 18. Incredible Collection of Babe Ruth Sheet Music, Publications and Advertisements. The 1928 sheet music Babe Ruth! Babe Ruth! (We Know What He Can Do) is the Sultan of this diverse collection, which focuses on Ruth’s baseball career, but also provides glimpses of him off the field. Ex-m sheet music with superb cover art. The Mid-Week Pictorials with Ruth on the cover are also especially collectible. And some of the magazines with Ruth covers are downright scarce. Books: 2. The Babe Ruth Story as told to Bob Considine, 1948, paperback, ex-m. 3. Babe Ruth: The Big Moments of the Big Fellow by Tom Meany, 1951, ex-m hardback book, vg dj. 4. Babe Ruth as I knew him by Waite Hoyt, 1948, magazine format, ex+. Mid-Week Pictorials: 5. Complete April 14, 1921 issue, vg-ex. Ruth occupies the entire cover, with “Play Ball! Babe Ruth” as the caption beneath his image. Also includes a centerfold featuring Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, George Sisler, Harry Hooper, Eddie Foster, Ty Cobb and others. 6. Complete March 15 1930, g-vg. “Babe’s Mighty Bat Once More Swings into Action” is the caption under a full-cover photo. Magazines: 7. The Elks Magazine, Aug. 1933, with Babe Ruth cover featuring a small boy batting, superimposed over a larger Babe Ruth image. Vg. 8. May 1935 Capper’s Farmer “Sultan of Swat” Babe Ruth cover. Great vg-ex cover. 9. May, 1948 Sport magazine with Ruth and those chasing his record: Johnny Mize, Ralph Kiner and Ted Williams on the cover, ex with light interior pencil markings. Advertising: 10-25. 16 vintage advertisements featuring Babe Ruth as spokesperson for Wheaties, Remington, Reach, Barbasol, Ingram’s Shaving Cream and more. Four approximately 8 ½” x 11” ads in black and white and two in color. Ten large folio magazine advertisements of Ruth, including Youth’s Companion cover and William Bendix as Babe Ruth in “The Babe Ruth Story.” Ex overall. Misc: 26. Hall of Fame Baseball Handbook: 4” x 6 Rexall Sports Library pamphlet, 1960 with Ruth on cover. Ex.
Winning Bid $321.
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