Babe Ruth

ID: 1948 ~ Source: Library of Congress ~ Date: 1920 July 23
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Babe Ruth

A full-length portrait of Babe Ruth showing him in baseball uniform and holding a baseball bat.

This file appears in: Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum

By Eli Pousson
On February 6, 1968, the city paid $1,850 to buy four vacant, vandalized rowhouses on Emory Street—an unusual birthday celebration for famed Baltimore native Babe Ruth. Exactly seventy-three years earlier, George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr. was born at…