Babe Ruth 1915 Rookie Red Sox Type 1 Original Photo PSA/DNA RARE Crystal Clear

A well-known image that has been attributed to an October 7, 1915 photo shoot on the final game of the regular season. The photographer is the iconic George Grantham Bain, a prolific craftsman whose archive of 40,000 glass plate negatives and 50,000 photographic prints is held by the Library of Congress. While his wider claim to fame is "the father of foreign photographic news," Bain is particularly popular among collectors of baseball photography, and Bain's home base of New York City ensured that the entirety of both Major Leagues were available to him. This photograph was shot at the Polo Grounds, where Ruth locked down his eighteenth and final pitching victory the previous day against the team he'd join in 1920.