Babe Ruth Johnny Evers Miller Huggins 1929 Yankees Team Signed Baseball JSA COA

With changes looming on multiple fronts, the New York Yankees played an exhibition contest against the Boston Braves during the spring of 1929. Over the winter following the club’s second successive World Series title, Babe Ruth’s wife, Helen, died in a fire at the age of 31. The day before the 1929 season began, Ruth wed Claire Hodgson. In early June, he was admitted to St. Vincent’s hospital and diagnosed with heart murmurs. Before the season ended, skipper Miller Huggins was hospitalized with a sore below his left eye. Five days later, he was dead of erysipelas. And in the end, the Yanks – who had started the campaign at a torrid 13-4 – finished a distant 18 games behind Connie Mack’s Athletics. But these were still the Bronx Bombers, wearing uniform numbers for the first time, and as they teamed with the Braves to autograph this baseball at the aforementioned exhibition, were still baseball’s main attraction – despite season standings suggesting otherwise. The medium is an Offici