This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/28/2013
Outside of picturing Babe Ruth in his classic follow-through swing, this newspaper photograph of the Sultan of Swat entertaining two young boys at a children's hospital is the way millions of fans remember the Hall of Famer. The player who merged the real and mythological as no other before or since, is shown here in a 4-by-5-inch newspaper clipping adjudged to be from the 1930's, but this time with the breathtaking addition of a sterling black fountain pen signature, anointed with a PSA/DNA 9 designation that affords some hint of the enormity of a Ruth signature of such unprecedented clarity and elegance so perfectly preserved over nearly 80 years. The signed clipping is carefully matted in a quiet gray board which also displays two Near-Mint Yankee pins roughly 1 1/4 inches in diameter. All elements are protected in a 1-inch wood frame with plexiglass that brings the overall dimensions to 8 3/4-by-13 1/2 inches.
Full LOA from PSA/DNA (Autograph MINT PSA 9)