1916 World Series Game Two Ticket Stub & Program....

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Babe Ruth pitches thirteen shutout innings to begin record streak!

1916 World Series Game Two Ticket Stub & Program. It was a tough eight days for the ghost of Babe Ruth, with two of his greatest records eclipsed by members of the team he epitomized for fifteen seasons of Major League service. Everybody knows the first one, which came on October 1, 1961 when Roger Maris belted the sixty-first home run to conclude the storied M&M Boys home run race. The second record fell on October 8th in Game Four of the Yankees' five-game Fall Classic defeat of the 1961 Cincinnati Reds. Fellow Hall of Famer Whitey Ford blanked the Reds through five innings before leaving the game with an ankle injury and an unbroken streak of thirty-two scoreless innings in World Series competition.

The previous mark for pitching perfection on the game's greatest stage had been twenty-nine and one-third inning, a chain of goose eggs strung together by the young southpaw Ruth with the 1916 and 1918 Boston Red Sox. That streak began the day this ticket stub and program were issued, souvenirs of a contest considered by many to be the greatest World Series pitching duel of all time. After surrendering an inside-the-park home run in the first, the Babe drove in the tying run in the third and blanked the Brooklyn Robins deep into extra innings until Del Gainer's single gave the Sox the walk-off two-to-one victory in the bottom of the fourteenth. Brooklyn's Sherry Smith was the hard-luck complete game loser.

Just three examples of this important ticket stub appear on the population report of PSA, which assigns an "Authentic" rating to this exceedingly rare memento. Reverse exhibits signs of scrapbook removal, but the front presents very well with minimal evident wear. The twelve-page program for the contest is pencil-scored at center, with the extra innings commandeering the columns meant to be used for recording at-bats, runs, singles and total bases. A heavy vertical center fold line is the result of storage in the happy Red Sox fan's coat pocket, with minor wear to the right edge of the front cover the only other condition caveat worthy of mention. An extraordinarily rare and significant matched pair from the same attendee of this famous World Series contest. Ticket encapsulated "Authentic" by PSA.