78 RPM Babe Ruth Home Run Story (by Babe Himself) Actuelle 1920 LISTEN

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GENUINE 1920 ACTUELLE NEEDLE CUT 78RPM RECORD "BABE" RUTH'S HOME RUN STORY LISTEN TO MOST OF IT, PLAYED ON A PERIOD VICTROLA WITH A NEW NEEDLE YES, NOISY, BUT VERY GOOD OVERALL.  I DID NOT PLAY THE FOXTROT ON THEBACK, LOOKS ABOUT THE SAME,  I DID NOT CLEAN THAT SIDE, HOWEVER. EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTIBLE, HEAR BABE RUTH'S VOICE.
SHIPPED IN SEVERAL LAYERS OF CARDBOARD.
HERE IS THE TRANSCRIPTION:
Ladies and gentleman, We before you.....no that's wrong. If you say you have before you, your illustrious but very humble servant, Babe Ruth. Did you know I'm a baseball player and a specialist in home runs.

 I made a record of home runs and now I am making a record of quite another kind. I hope you stand for it, and like it as much as you did the others. As a matter of fact I am quite unused to this sought of thing, I am more at home on the diamond than on the disc. However they tell me that I could do allmost anything when I'm really wound up. They tell me also that the easiest thing in the world to get wound up on a phonograph so, so here it goes.

 I see by the papers that Babe Ruth, that's me, is what is known by a popular hero. One of the papers even refers to me as a super man. I'm not quite sure what that is, but I often fond myself in the soup, so perhaps that makes me a super man.

 But to return to that popular hero stuff, it seems that the great big American public likes to have a speech with popular heroes. I haven't been able to deliver speeches on the diamond, I've been too busy delivering wallops. Thousands of fans have seen me swinging the stick, and millions have seen my, my handsome face in the papers, but might few have ever heard me make a speech so here I am facing a phonograph horn for the first time in my life, and believe me folks, I'd rather face the most dangerous pitcher in the league.

 I feel like making this darn thing but if it were a bit of leather you'd hear some concussion. I suppose you folks would want to hear some real inside stuff about baseball and so a short history of my life so. I was born when, quite a little chap, in fact I was very little when I was born, but (inaudible) alright. I used to accompany my parents on their evening walk. When they've thought I walked far enough, they'd say now Babe run home. They said it to me every night in those words run home, first put the idea of home runs in my noodle, the rest was easy all I had to do was just, join a big league outfit and they expected me of home runs. See how easy it was once having to made up my mind.

 But I don't know a game I go in, what's it called, the psychological frame of mind. One thing this psychology, When my psychological frame of mind meets the psychological moment, the psychological wallop follows, that's how it's done. I make it a rule never to miss an opportunity of hacking another  notch in that darn old home run record.

unknown voice: What never Babe?
Babe: No Never
unknown voice: What Never?
Babe: Well hardly ever

But as I was saying, I'm not accustom to public speaking, and folks I have to conserve my energy for tomorrows game, and I guess you heard enough about my smashing records. I supposin' if I don't quit you'd want to smash this record. So, good bye and good luck.