Born in Vincennes Indiana in 1872 Dewitt Clinton Amerine was a hardworking young man who began his career as a cutter boy with the Piqua Strawboard Mills (the lowest rung on the corporate totem pole) and retired as president of the Indiana Board & Filler Company one of the larger paper industry conglomerates of its time. His personal ambition and energy made him a success in business during the country's hardest economic times; his generosity and care for others helped him earn a well-deserved reputation for being a compassionate civic leader and philanthropist. He was also a baseball fan and later in his career purchased a second home in St. Petersburg Florida with his favorite sport in mind. His favorite team the Yankees began holding their spring training camps in St. Petersburg practicing at Crescent Lake and playing their games at Waterfront Park. Mr. Amerine was a regular attendee. The spring of 1934 marked Babe Ruth's final Spring Training in a Yankee uniform and he approached training camp ready to get into shape and attack the upcoming season. Ruth discussed the upcoming season including thoughts on being a 40-year-old ballplayer in newsreel footage that can be viewed online. It was during that spring - on March 25 - that Ruth hit a home run off Boston's Huck Betts that was measured as having traveled an astonishing 624 feet. Though Ruth was at the tail end of his career in the spring of 1934 his celebrity remained high. The subject of hundreds of newspaper articles and blurbs across the country in February alone it seemed that Ruth's every move - from his contract negotiations to his age his golf games his appearance at camp and his first workout - were extensively chronicled. By late March newspaper writers began to feel confident that Ruth had established his home run stroke for the year and that he would continue his offensive dominance into 1934. Late in the month the Yankee workouts were swarmed by fans eager to take pictures of Ruth and receive autographs. Among them was Dewitt Clinton Amerine. Amerine spent time at Miller Huggins Park taking pictures and obtaining some autographs which he then carefully stored away for years. The two baseballs - and accompanying scrapbook - remained in the Amerine family until now. It is our privilege to present these outstanding artifacts to the hobby.