Set Reminder2024-04-18 12:00:002024-04-18 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/how-history-unfolds-on-paper-choice-selections-from-the-eric-c-caren-collection-part-ix-21908 This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective.
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BOSTON NEWSPAPER REPORTS LOCAL PURCHASE OF BABE RUTH [BASEBALL]. [RUTH, George Herman ?Babe? (1895-1948), association]. The Boston Post. Boston, MA, January 7, 1920. 20 folio pages on large folded leaves. Each page approximately 568 x 422 mm. Pages toned, brittle, all pages loose with tears at central fold, chipped, with numerous marginal tears, two pages with marginal tape repairs. A hometown newspaper account of the sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees on p. 1 (once referred in the article by their unofficial nickname, the ?New York Americans?): ?Babe Agrees to Play in N. Y. / Manager Huggins Claims to Have His Word / ? Miller Huggins, manager of the New York Americans, left for home today, announcing before his departure that he had closed with ?Babe? Ruth to play with New York this year.?