The Bambino rolled his own cigars

[skibumdc]

Interesting line in the ESPN article that another CS member posted.
Babe Ruth rolled his own cigars....and here is a PIC to show it.

[krevo81]

That's a pretty badass pic Little perfectos

[Dgar]

Thanks, very cool picture and it looks like he's doing a pretty good job with his rolling. I'm guessing he didnt roll his own cigars wearing a suit and tie all the time.

[pnoon]

Looks photoshopped to me.

[Rudder]

Yeah right
Now if I can only find that pic of me flying the space shuttle.

[Todd W]

Are you kidding me? That's a famous shot with plenty of documentation behind it. What looks doctored to you guys?

I wonder what percentage of his own smokes he rolled.

[Rudder]

Nothing is doctored on the photo. Just like when I sat in the space shuttle.

[BamBam]

Originally Posted by Todd W

Are you kidding me? That's a famous shot with plenty of documentation behind it. What looks doctored to you guys?

I wonder what percentage of his own smokes he rolled.

They're just joking. Easy....Easy

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by Todd W

Are you kidding me? That's a famous shot with plenty of documentation behind it. What looks doctored to you guys?

I wonder what percentage of his own smokes he rolled.

I'm not kidding. It looks photoshopped.
Please link us to some of the "plenty of documentation".

[Texan in Mexico]

Originally Posted by Rudder

Nothing is doctored on the photo. Just like when I sat in the space shuttle.

Man that was some flight huh? Crazy that NASA let us smoke in the cargo bay...

EDIT to assuage the wise-a@@ remarks - there is actually quite a bit about the Babe and cigars even the fact that he owned a percentage of a cigar factory in Boston:

Over the next few years, big-league managers like Connie Mack and John McGraw barnstormed with teams through Cuba and competed against the best Cuban and Negro League stars. Méndez and Pedroso dueled with the likes of Eddie Plank, Chief Bender, and Christy Mathewson. McGraw toured with his New York Giants after the 1920 season and added newly acquired Yankee slugger Babe Ruth to his roster. Ruth, who had learned to roll cigars at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, had a life-long love affair with the puro. It was said that some of the initial balking he did over his sale from the Red Sox to New York was because he didn't want to leave his cigar factory in Boston.

Babe loved the idea of going to Havana and he gambled and smoked incessantly. He gained 25 pounds and had a good time. On the field it was a different story. José Méndez struck out "the Bambino" three times in one game. Meanwhile, Cuba's Cristóbal Torriente, who bore a physical resemblance to the Babe and had established himself as one of the top hitters in Cuba, hit three home runs for Almendares.

Im not saying it is not photoshopped, it just adds some weight to the argument that it could real especially if he participated in a factory in Boston.

Travis

[macjoe53]

The photo was not photoshopped. I can see why some people would think it was though because of the sharp definition between the Babe and the background. However, that sharp definition is easy to do by someone who is a very good photographer and when it's printed properly by hand and not by a machine. I'm pretty sure they didn't have automated photo processors back when that was shot. The fine detail was probably also the result of using larger format, slow speed black and white film. Back then the standard news camera was used 4x5 inch sheet film. The larger the film size, the more refined the detail will be when the image is properly shot, processed and printed.

You can get the same basic result with a digital camera but you would have to "photoshop" the image to do so.

[pbrennan10]

Obviously a fake

I can tell by the increased illumino iso shutter pixellation around the contrast regions and having seen quite a few fake Babe Ruth cigar rolling photos in my time.

[jack7382]

nice pic!

[Texan in Mexico]

Originally Posted by pbrennan10

Obviously a fake

I can tell by the increased illumino iso shutter pixellation around the contrast regions and having seen quite a few fake Babe Ruth cigar rolling photos in my time.

May I ask why? If he was partner in a cigar factory in Boston it would certainly seem feasible that he knew how to roll.

I agree with macjoe53's entry as well that the quality of film certainly could have produced that halo effect but I am by no means an expert.

Just seems plausible...

[pbrennan10]

Originally Posted by Texan in Mexico

May I ask why? If he was partner in a cigar factory in Boston it would certainly seem feasible that he knew how to roll.

I agree with macjoe53's entry as well that the quality of film certainly could have produced that halo effect but I am by no means an expert.

Just seems plausible...

I deal with facts not feasibilities.