awesome picture...
lance4824 wrote:
+1
very interesting...wonder if this was his introduction to cigars...he had pix taken with a cigar in his later years...
delta1 wrote:
I don't think so, thought he starting using tobacco at a young age.
I know he was a pitch man for White Owls back in the day. 🤦
Then again, maybe White Owls from dem days was good...
KingoftheCove wrote:
Yeah, I think that was before peaches were invented...
To say young George was mischievous would be an understatement. He was always getting into trouble roughhousing and tossing tomatoes at police officers in the hardscrabble neighborhood surrounding his father's saloon. By age seven, he was impossible for his parents to control or for his father, who put in long hours at the saloon, to discipline. As Babe's daughter Dorothy recalls, his parents sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School to ensure that he learned a vocation. The strict institution--a combination orphanage and reform school--was run by an order of Xavierian Brothers who taught Ruth how to make shirts and roll cigars.
Source/Cigar Aficianado magazine
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I wonder if anyone has any of those shirts he made, LOL!!! Would be worth a MINT, IF you cold prove it!!!
Quite welcome, Brother!
Numismaniac wrote:
That would be cool to have...but like you said, IF you could prove it. And probably more valuable than the autographed baseball we have.
