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Title
Babe Ruth plays an exhibition game with area baseball players in Iron Mountain
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

Subject
Baseball

Subject
Portraits, Group

Item Number
AF01a042

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of George Herman ""Babe"" Ruth, New York Yankees outfielder, posing with Nello ""Fungo"" Tedeschi at an exhibition game in Iron Mountain held on October 28, 1926. Tedeschi, one of the pitchers for the opposing local team who, together with a Channing, Michigan pitcher, succeeded in striking Ruth out.

Babe Ruth plays an exhibition game with area baseball players in Iron Mountain

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