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[BASEBALL]. [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide Thirty-Ninth Year 1915. Edited by John B. Foster. New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1915. 12mo. Illustrated with intertextual photos of ballplayers and teams. Original printed pictorial wrappers (light rubbing, soiling to wrappers, small marginal chip to upper edge of front wrapper, hinges starting a bit). FIRST EDITION, WITH A PHOTO OF BABE RUTH WITH HIS MINOR-LEAGUE TEAM ON P. 198. Babe Ruth’s first mention in a Spalding guide.