The Finest Ty Cobb Signed Baseball Bat Graded 10 GEM MINT From Babe Ruth PSA DNA

The Finest Ty Cobb Signed Baseball Bat Graded 10 GEM MINT From Babe Ruth PSA DNA

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Dorothy Ruth, the adopted daughter of the Great Bambino, made an astonishing revelation in her 1988 autobiography, My Dad, the Babe. She disclosed that the iconic baseball legend was her biological father, a truth that had remained hidden from both of Ruth's wives. The child Ruth encouraged his first wife, Helen, to adopt was conceived during an affair with Juanita Jennings in 1920. Juanita would go on to marry Charles Ellias, a close friend of Babe’s. In 1929, Dorothy's life took a tragic turn when the woman she believed to be her mother died in a house fire. Shortly after Helen’s death, Ruth married Claire Merritt, who became not only Dorothy's stepmother but also Juanita’s dear friend. Juanita would then bear the heartache of keeping this heavy secret from Dorothy for a half-century longer, watching her biological daughter grow up apart from her. It wasn't until 1980, four years after Claire's passing, that Juanita confessed on her deathbed to Dorothy that she was really her mothe

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