Occasionally an item crosses our desk that is so improbable and so amazing that it is difficult for us to believe that it exists. Even less occasionally an item crosses our desk that is even more improbable than that; a virtual impossibility something that by hobby standards can only be described with the word "miracle." This item is even more improbable than that. Consider this: a baseball fan brings his/her camera to a ballgame at Boston's Fenway Park in July of 1914. During the course of the game from his/her perch along the first base line the fan snaps a few photos of in-game action. The Thursday afternoon game is fairly nondescript the opening game of a four-game set between the visiting Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red Sox. Tigers' star Ty Cobb was not in the starting lineup for Detroit; his centerfield counterpart in Boston was the great Tris Speaker. Speaker along with Detroit outfielders Sam Crawford and Harry Heilmann were the stars on the field for that game which pitted Detroit starting pitcher Hooks Dauss against a 19-year-old rookie making just his second appearance in a major league uniform. That rookie's name of course was Babe Ruth. Ruth was removed in the 4th inning of the game giving up two earned runs and yielding to relief pitcher Rankin Johnson in the Red Sox' 5-2 loss. Just another midseason game featuring a pitcher who would go on to become the greatest player the game has ever seen and perhaps the most famous American ever. Inexplicably several photos from the game survive more than a century eventually becoming separated from one another. Developed into a Real Photo Postcard one of the photos depicts Ruth in the distance on the mound in the early stages of the game. The postcard is at some point mounted into an album and at some point subsequent to that is trimmed. The postcard makes its way through the hobby at some point acquiring some pencil notations on the reverse - but the presence of Ruth on the mound remains a secret known only to the players in the photo. The card winds up in a group of postcards in a hobby auction where its contents are purchased and divided up to be listed on eBay. This is of course where our consignor comes in: a scholar of the game he immediately recognized the confines of Fenway Park in the photo notes the date written on the reverse and purchases the postcard based on the possibility that some greatness might be hidden in the photo. From there began a months-long research project that involved the type of detective work that lands one in the Love of the Game Hall of Fame. First the consignor was able to date the postcard to 1914 by comparing the ballpark advertising to that seen in other photos taken inside Fenway during the 1914 season. Next by digitally enlarging the scoreboard in the background th