Babe Ruth – First Base album art (North America)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Jan 19th, 2025. Artwork published in
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Babe Ruth is an English rock band from Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Initially named Shacklock, it was renamed after the famous baseball player in 1972. The debut album is best known for the song “The Mexican”. It comes with cover art by Roger Dean (b. 1944) who chose to depict a scene of space baseball, with the astronaut players surfing on sharks.
While the UK release featured Cooper Black Italic, with related lettering for the band name, the type was changed for the North American market: there, it’s almost as bonkers as the art, featuring a chromatic setting of Vanderbilt. This style is the shaded variant of Vassar, a top-heavy novelty face added to Filmotype’s library sometime before 1970.
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