Babe Ruth Full Length Portrait Standing Facing Slightly Left in Baseball Uniform civil war history May 8th 1846 — a

May 8th 1846 — a martial lithograph from the opening salvo of the Mexican War

when Johnson's fastball was already humming out of Washington and the Highlanders still patrolled Hilltop Park before they were ever called Yankees

and monument — Baltimore as it wished to be remembered

and civic boosterism shared a single fairground

Babe Ruth Full Length Portrait Standing Facing Slightly Left in Baseball Uniform civil war history May 8th 1846 — aBabe Ruth Full Length Portrait Standing Facing Slightly Left in Baseball Uniform 1 is a press portrait of the Bambino caught in repose rather than in swing bat absent, flannels hanging easy, the famous shoulders turned just off square to the lens. There's something disarming about seeing the home run king standing still, as if the photographer asked him, just once, to be a man before a myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from