The life story of Babe Ruth is so grandiose and larger than life that The Babe is certainly the only person qualified to tell it. In this book, “The Babe Ruth Story”, Ruth leads the reader on a winding tale from his days as a catcher on the St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys baseball team to the late 1940’s, when Ruth was the preeminent ambassador for the sport of baseball. This book, on its pristine red cover, touts itself as Ruth’s “only authenticated story”, and is filled with the Babe’s musings and tutorials on the sport he so thoroughly dominated. The inside cover and first page of this book features a pictorial representation of all 60 home runs Ruth hit in his majestic 1927 season, from the first he hit off Howard Ehmke to his final home run of the season, struck against Tom Zachary.  

This first edition book, which would have run a customer $3.00 in 1948, is chock full of fascinating photographs of Ruth and his contemporaries, as well as his pet greyhound. This book was co-written with Bob Considine, a best-selling journalist and author, who, coincidentally, is interred in the same West Chester County cemetery as Ruth.

Ruth has signed the cover page of this book in blue pen. He added an inscription to his co-author Bob Considine, writing “To My Pal Bob Considine” and “From Babe Ruth 1948”. This signature presents beautifully and has been given the incredible grade of MINT 9 by Beckett Authentication Services. This historic book is accompanied by a LOA from Steve Grad of Beckett Authentication (A76130).

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