W515 Strip Card Babe Ruth Size:24x36 every rivet and bulkhead drawn

every rivet and bulkhead drawn with the gravity of someone who knew the weight of water overhead

The scene hums with carriage trade and old-money swagger

the moment the pan-Indian alliance died with its architect and the frontier shifted irrevocably westward

just as the Union began to quarrel over whose hands should work the soil

W515 Strip Card Babe Ruth Size:24x36 every rivet and bulkhead drawnW515 Strip Card Babe Ruth a strip card cut from a perforated sheet sometime in the early 1920s, when Ruth's swing was rewriting what a baseball could do in flight. The crude lithography and hand scissored edges feel almost folk art, a candy store relic of the moment America decided to worship its first true slugger. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's