1914 news photo BABE RUTH 1st signs w BALTIMORE ORIOLES

Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm PHOTO----- Six pages of an ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Baltimore American (MD) dated April 22, 1914- including the entire sports section. This is the "home town" newspaper of BABE RUTH and this has a prominent 9" x 3" inside page team photo of the Minor League BALTIMORE ORIOLES. This is significant because the Orioles had just signed a young local pitcher, BABE RUTH, to a Minor League contract and this is the FIRST photo of BABE RUTH as an Oriole at the very beginning of his long and storied baseball career !!! A very young-looking Babe Ruth can be clearly seen in the photo sitting at the center of the front row. T is also a prominent heading and long detailed report on the baseball game on April 21 between the Baltimore Orioles and the Buffalo baseball team, with a preview of the game of April 22 stating that "Jack Dunn will send...Babe Ruth, the sensational left hander from the St Mary's Industrial School to the mound..." This game pitched by Babe Ruth on April 22, 1914 was the FIRST professional game ever played in by Babe Ruth !!!! This is the very beginning of Babe Ruth's baseball career, and has a photo of Ruth- IN HIS HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER !!! George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935. Ruth originally broke into the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher , but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder and subsequently became one of the league's most prolific hitters. Ruth was a mainstay in the Yankees' lineup that won seven pennants and four World Series titles during his tenure with the team. After a short stint with the Boston Braves in 1935, Ruth retired. In 1936, Ruth became one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame . In 1913, St. Mary's Industrial School was playing a game against Mount St. Mary's University (then college) in Emmitsburg, Maryland . That day, the game was attended by Joe Engel , a former Mount St. Mary's student who was now a pitcher for the Washington Senators . Impressed with Ruth's pitching abilities, Engel, along with a teacher at St. Mary's, Brother Gilbert, brought Ruth to the attention of Jack Dunn , owner and manager of the then minor-league Baltimore Orioles . After watching Ruth pitch in a workout for half an hour, Dunn signed Ruth to a contract for $250 ($5,500 in current dollar terms) a month on February 14, 1914. Since Ruth was only 19 years old, Dunn had to become Ruth's legal guardian as well; at that time, the age of majority was 25. When the other players on the Orioles caught sight of Ruth, they nicknamed him "Jack's newest babe." The reference stayed with Ruth the rest of his life, and he was most commonly referred to as Babe Ruth from then on. "Babe" was not a unique nickname (see e.g., Babe Herman ). His teammates also called him "George" or "Jidge" (a nickname for George). On July 7, 1914, Dunn offered to trade Ruth, along with Ernie Shore and Ben Egan , to Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics . Dunn asked $10,000 ($220,000 in current dollar terms) for the trio, but Mack refused the offer. The Cincinnati Reds , who had an agreement with the Orioles, also passed on Ruth. Instead, the team elected to take George Twombley and Claud Derrick. Two days later, on July 9, Dunn sold the trio to Joe Lannin and the Boston Red Sox . The amount of money exchanged in the transaction is disputed. Very good condition. This listing includes 6 pages (1/2, 5/6, and 9/10), not the entire newspaper. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we ... read more