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Lot # 1328: 1933 Babe Ruth at First MLB All Star Game Original Photograph (PSA Type I)

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Presented is a 1933 Associated Press original Type I photo of Babe Ruth, flanked by fellow Hall of Fame sluggers Al Simmons (on the left) and Charlie Gehringer at Major League Baseball's first All-Star game, on July 6, 1933, at Comiskey Park, in Chicago. In '33, The Babe was in his next-to-last season with the New York Yankees before finishing his career with a half-season on the Boston Braves. He batted .301 in '33, with 34 home runs and 114 RBIs. Al Simmons, an outfielder, batted .334 with 307 home runs in a career with seven teams, most notably the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox. Gehringer played 19 Major League seasons as a second baseman, all with the Detroit Tigers, and he had a .320 lifetime batting average with 187 home runs. The All-Star Game was at first billed as a one-time "Game of the Century," but it has since become an annual event. Ruth hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the third inning and made a key outfield catch in the eighth inning near the outfield scoreboard as the American League won by a score of 4-2, with Yankees' Lefty Gomez getting the win. The photo measures approx. 7x9". An imperfection on the photo is that near the bottom of the photo is the visible bottom of the paper containing the Associated Press "slug" and the glue remnants from the slug are also visible on the front. The slug on back reads, in part, "American League Sluggers Meet/Three of the handpicked American League baseball stars, each a slugger of note, as they met in Comiskey Park shortly before the start of the... All-Star... Game.... Left to right they are, Al Simmons, of the Chicago White Sox; Babe Ruth, of the New York Yankees; and Gehringer of Detroit/7-6-33." The offering has great vintage baseball nostalgia. The photo has been encapsulated and PSA Certified as Type I AUTHENTIC.

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