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Magnificent matte-finish 9 x 6.75 photo of Babe Ruth wearing his baseball cap in a great up-close pose, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "Best wishes, To the boys and good Sisters at Nazareth House, From Babe Ruth.” Impressively matted and framed to an overall size of 19 x 16.5. In very good to fine condition, with light bends and scratches, and a thin layer of apparent shellac.
A poignant signed photograph presented to an orphanage not unlike the kind a young Babe Ruth was raised in as a boy. At the age of seven, Ruth was sent to the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore, Maryland. The oft-misbehaving Ruth spent the better part of the next 12 years at the reformatory and orphanage, attaining skills such as carpentry and tailoring, while also taking to the sport of baseball under the tutelage of the school's Prefect of Discipline, Brother Matthias Boutlier. Many of the boys at St. Mary's played in organized leagues, and Ruth, by the time he turned 18, had become the most feared pitcher at the school. In early 1914, and shortly after his discharge from St. Mary's, Ruth signed his first professional baseball contract with Jack Dunn, the owner and manager of the minor-league Baltimore Orioles. With its superb image and close association with Ruth's famous rags-to-riches tale, this is an impeccable signed photograph and an ideal representation of the legendary ballplayer.
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