The Bambino rolled his own cigars
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I'm not kidding. It looks photoshopped.
Please link us to some of the "plenty of documentation".
Texan in Mexico
Lowland Gorilla
Man that was some flight huh? Crazy that NASA let us smoke in the cargo bay...
EDIT to assuage the wise-a@@ remarks - there is actually quite a bit about the Babe and cigars even the fact that he owned a percentage of a cigar factory in Boston:
Over the next few years, big-league managers like Connie Mack and John McGraw barnstormed with teams through Cuba and competed against the best Cuban and Negro League stars. Méndez and Pedroso dueled with the likes of Eddie Plank, Chief Bender, and Christy Mathewson. McGraw toured with his New York Giants after the 1920 season and added newly acquired Yankee slugger Babe Ruth to his roster. Ruth, who had learned to roll cigars at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, had a life-long love affair with the puro. It was said that some of the initial balking he did over his sale from the Red Sox to New York was because he didn't want to leave his cigar factory in Boston.
Babe loved the idea of going to Havana and he gambled and smoked incessantly. He gained 25 pounds and had a good time. On the field it was a different story. José Méndez struck out "the Bambino" three times in one game. Meanwhile, Cuba's Cristóbal Torriente, who bore a physical resemblance to the Babe and had established himself as one of the top hitters in Cuba, hit three home runs for Almendares.
Im not saying it is not photoshopped, it just adds some weight to the argument that it could real especially if he participated in a factory in Boston.
Travis
The photo was not photoshopped. I can see why some people would think it was though because of the sharp definition between the Babe and the background. However, that sharp definition is easy to do by someone who is a very good photographer and when it's printed properly by hand and not by a machine. I'm pretty sure they didn't have automated photo processors back when that was shot. The fine detail was probably also the result of using larger format, slow speed black and white film. Back then the standard news camera was used 4x5 inch sheet film. The larger the film size, the more refined the detail will be when the image is properly shot, processed and printed.
You can get the same basic result with a digital camera but you would have to "photoshop" the image to do so.
You can get the same basic result with a digital camera but you would have to "photoshop" the image to do so.
pbrennan10
Softball Pitcher
Obviously a fake
I can tell by the increased illumino iso shutter pixellation around the contrast regions and having seen quite a few fake Babe Ruth cigar rolling photos in my time.
I can tell by the increased illumino iso shutter pixellation around the contrast regions and having seen quite a few fake Babe Ruth cigar rolling photos in my time.
Texan in Mexico
Lowland Gorilla
May I ask why? If he was partner in a cigar factory in Boston it would certainly seem feasible that he knew how to roll.
I agree with macjoe53's entry as well that the quality of film certainly could have produced that halo effect but I am by no means an expert.
Just seems plausible...
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pbrennan10
Softball Pitcher
I deal with facts not feasibilities.
Texan in Mexico
Lowland Gorilla
Very well, I respect your way of thinking, must be nice - kind of makes life challenging but to each his own.
The candy bar was actually named after President Grover Cleveland's baby daughter; Ruth.
Don't see any need for someone to forge a picture of the Bambino(obviously from his early years) sitting at a cigar rolling table. The guy was amazing in how much he could eat and drink- among other things! Alas, we know that his high living took him to an early grave.
andrewsutherland2002
Real Men Cut Lusis in 1/2
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