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Private Ruth: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 7:35pm.
Yankees slugger Babe Ruth on May 28, 1924, at the War Department in Washington shortly after signing up for a three-year stint in the New York National Guard. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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Babe Ruth
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 9:30pm.
I'll call this photo "Babe In Arms"!
The Babe
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 6:24pm.
Is it possible for you to send me your fixed copy that size? If so my email is Absolutsublime5@gmail.com , I sure would appreciate it. It seems like you really know you way around photoshop, such subtle differences sometimes make all the difference!
[That's too big to e-mail. You can download the full size tiff from the link below. - Dave]
Babe Ruth
Submitted by Jay on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 10:44pm.
I'm surprised I'm the only commenter on this. It's a phenomenal photograph, and I see you cleaned it up some. I have the same pic but it has a white line across half the picture. Is it possible that you have a larger size photo of this? like something like 4,000 x 4,000? Just a shot in the dark.
[This jpeg was made from a tiff 5235 pixels wide x 4209 pixels deep. - Dave]
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