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Today's it's the Bambino's turn to be featured. Of course I collect Babe Ruth, the most famous baseball player of all-time. The Babe transcended the game of baseball. Even today people who cannot name any other baseball player can come up with the name of Babe Ruth. His story is legendary of how he learned the game in an orphanage, became a star pitcher for the Red Sox, was traded to the Yankees in a lopsided deal that left a curse over the Beantown team for decades. The Sultan of Swat was a two-time All-star playing most of his career before there was an All-star game. He was a seven-time World Series Champion, a MVP, a Batting Champion, a 12-time Home Run leader, a six-time RBI leader and as a pitcher led his league in ERA once. There are many tales of Ruth's accomplishments such as his "called shot" in 1932, his 60 home run season in 1927 that stood for 34 years as a season record, his voracious appetite and bellyaches and his place in the "Murder's Row "lineup. His 714 career home runs was the benchmark for nearly 40 years and even today has only been surpassed twice. I currently have 855 Beckett recognized cards of Babe although sadly none from his playing days. Here are nine from my collection.

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1960 Fleer #3 Babe Ruth
1961 Nu-Card Scoops #447 Babe Ruth 60th Homer
1962 Topps #141 Babe Ruth Special 7/Twilight Years (I have seven of the ten cards from this subset.)

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1968 Sports Memorabilia All-Time Greats #11 Babe Ruth
1973 Topps #474 Babe Ruth/All-Time RBI Leader
1976 Topps #345 Babe Ruth ATG

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2002 Donruss All-Time Diamond Kings #4 Babe Ruth
2011 Topps Factory Set Target Ruth Chrome Gold Refractors #BR59 Babe Ruth 59T (A bonus included in my factory set that year.)
2012 Topps Golden Moments Die Cuts #GMDC1 Babe Ruth (Picked this up from duck6700j earlier this year.)