Here's Babe's WWII draft card with the correct birthday: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/Military_BabeRuthWW2DraftC.jpg Here's what happened apparently. Ruth didn't learn his correct birthdate until he applied for a passport in the 30's. Heck, Ruth apparently got the year wrong too on the first one. On his WWI draft card he lists his birthyear as 1894, whereas on the correct one it's 1895. That's pretty funny! By the way, thanks for all of the pics. I'm a baseball history fanatic and this is by far my favorite thread ever.