[QUOTE=Dave Suponski;9615]Forrest,Thanks for the Ruth photo's a nice treat. We,re a big baseball and Yankee's family here. As far as this "so called" Ruth gun goes without any hard provenance its just a Parker shotgun.
In fact in a couple of weeks I can come up with a couple G Grades with Babe Ruth engraved on the trigger guard ! Or any other "Hall of Famer" for that matter....
[- great fotos- and afew observations- on the three man line up foto, the Bo-Sox player to the far right of Babe- he's using his middle finger on the trigger of his double- the gent in the middle- a Colt's .32 autoloader perhaps- and Babe shooting as a leftie with a double- but a Parker? Not sure--
The next foto of the Babe with the deceased alligator/crocodile- well, the Yankees had their Spring Training grounds down in Avon Park, FL. back then, in the great "Murder's Row" era- wonder if that's where the foto was taken?
