Ruth, George Herman ("Babe")

Typed letter signed ("Babe Ruth"), one page on personal stationery (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 88 x 130 mm, sight), New York, 12 April 1930, to All America Baseball contestant Vick Le Bean of Brooklyn, announcing the immediate publication of his new twice weekly column in The New York Evening Journal. Matted, glazed, and framed together with a portrait of Ruth in his Yankees uniform. Envelope retained on verso of frame.

The Sultan of Swat pitching his newspaper articles about baseball. To a participant in the New York World's All America Baseball Contest, he writes that he has joined the staff of the New York Evening Journal. "The Journal, as you know, has one of the biggest circulations in the world and will reach a great many more people, giving me an opportunity to spread baseball interest that much further.

"This looks like a big year in baseball and the all America contest should reach its greatest popularity this summer in The Evening Journal.

"Starting immediately I will have two articles every week in The Journal, and in addition a special illustrated Baseball Lesson along the lines of those that have already appeared.

"So don't fail to watch the Journal and get your friends to read it if you are interested in my articles regarding baseball and big league players."

In fact, it was Ford Frick, a reporter for the New York American and Evening Journal newspapers during Ruth's playing days (and later Commissioner of Baseball 1951–1965), who ghostwrote everything  from newspaper articles to books for the Bambino, including Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball.