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Lot # 208: Babe Ruth 1939 N.Y. State Income Tax Return - Year of Cooperstown Opening

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 7 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed
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Item was in Auction "2019 Winter Classic",
which ran from 1/4/2019 9:00 AM to
2/1/2019 10:00 PM



The Babe's total income according to this was $12, 530.51 and he contributed $700 to various charities such as police and fire departments. He was paid $1,00 for his work at the Ray Doan Baseball School in Jackson, Mississippi. Of course, he deducted the cost of baseballs, photographs and other items necessary advertising AUTOGRAPHS! Written in the hand of Joe Bihler, this was an unsigned duplicate. From the estate of Joe Bihler, the right hand man of Babe Ruth's agent Christy Walsh and in turn Ruth himself.

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