Babe Ruth New York AL Baseball USA A wartime tableau staged in

A wartime tableau staged in the heart of the city

Of all the rookie-era Babes scattered across the early commercial issues

Slade's 1896 inventor's diagram arrives from the gutta-percha era

Buckner and His Army

when a fielder's glove was little more than a padded palm with stubby

Babe Ruth New York AL Baseball USA A wartime tableau staged inBabe Ruth New York Al Baseball a press photograph from the Yankees years, when the Bambino had already outgrown Boston and was busy rewriting what a baseball could do in the air. The pose is unmistakable: that barrel chested swagger, captured in silver halide back when the American League still smelled like cigar smoke and newsprint. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for