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BABE RUTH 1926 WORLD SERIES GLOVE
You can honor one of baseball’s greatest by helping fund the work that will preserve this symbol of excellence for today’s generation and the next.
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Babe Ruth put up monumental statistics during his playing career. But the Bambino was more than numbers – especially to those who knew him, like former teammate Joe Dugan, who once said: “To understand him you had to understand this: He wasn’t human.”
Sports writer Tommy Holmes, winner of the 1979 BBWAA Career Excellence Award, was more succinct: “Some 20 years ago, I stopped talking about the Babe for the simple reason that I realized that those who had never seen him didn’t believe me.”
Ruth has been called an American original, undoubtedly the game’s first great slugger and the most celebrated athlete of his time.
Ruth’s glove from the 1926 World Series now needs conservation. The New York Yankees lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. Ruth would hit .300 in the series with four home runs, and lead the New York Yankees in walks that series with eleven. Ruth was 31 years old during the 1926 season, and played left and right field, as well as first base.