![]() Longo and Dave Grob, a leading authority on game-used baseball jerseys, attributes most of the uniform’s value to baseball rather than its association with the Fair. Certificates and cards were awarded to kids, and are coveted prizes today.” Last October one of these cards sold for $4800 in a Robert Edward Auction. “Ruth appeared at and gave lessons and demonstrations at The Academy of Sport in 19. “This story of the jersey is easily connected with autographs,” says Eric Longo, a fellow enthusiast I met on autographlive and a serious 1939 World’s Fair collector. The Fair’s promoters fully tapped into the Babe’s immense marketing prowess. My favorite part, on the shoulder patches, is the Trylon and Perisphere, the two modernist structures at the heart of the Fair, because they so symbolize its prevailing optimism for the “World of Tomorrow.” There’s a lot of to love about Ruth’s massive jersey and size 42 pants. against the Mets in New York at the end of the 1966 season. Scalegnio matched his MacGregor glove with a single-post web to a model Willie Mays wore in a game.
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