Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig's Epic Rivalry 

Lou Gehrig - my favorite New York Yankee of all time!

My dad went to the Babes funeral at Yankee stadium. He was in the coast guard stationed at Ellis Island hospital. He remembered that day and told me about the experience 60 years later.

Ruth got disowned by his parents and put in a foster home. By 7 years old he was already chewing tobacco, gambling and drinking whiskey. He’s from the same neighborhood as Gervonta Davis.

Lou Gehrig was also born into a working class family. He just made good of himself.

The Sultan of Swat and The Pride of the Yankees playing together was beyond historic. Two members of the greatest baseball team of all time: 1927 New York Yankees Murderers Row!! My great-grandpa was a lucky guy who watched them play together live during that magical season! The absolute best two Yankees ever!!

The Kobe Shaq clips while reading stats was genius. GENIUS

The candy Bar baby Ruth can actually be traced to president Gorver Cleveland’s first born daughter named Ruth I believe.

Just came across your channel and I love it. Two of my favorite players along with Clemente and Vlad Guerrero. Ive always felt that Gehrig was number 2 or 3 all time best hitters because for most of his short career and life he batted behind Ruth and then DiMaggio and won his two MVP's doing so. Batted over .300 12x in a row, 8 times in the top 5 in MVP voting. 13x over 100 runs , 8x over 200 hits, 8x over 400 TB won 2 MVP and if it wasn't for Jimmie Foxx in '32 and '33 and being overlooked during his Triple crown year of '34 he could have had 5 MVP.

Babe Ruth was such a great pitcher that during his 15-season tenure with the New York Yankees, (1920-1934), He had pitched in five games and low and behold "The Babe" won all five games for a 5-0 pitching record for the Yankees! Fact. Everything "The Babe did was great! Everything that he did was BIG! "The Babe" literally eat life up! The Legend of Big-Fat "Babe" Ruth will never die! Babe Ruth was baseball, Is baseball, and always will be BASEBALL ⚾!!!!

Great video

Then there are the barnstorming days. While on a boat to Japan, Gehrig ends up having to search for Eleanor for an extensive period of time, only to find her in Ruths room. Although just partying (and I believe Ruths wife was there as well) this obviously upset the Iron Horse enough to hold a serious grudge against The Babe.

Epic

Gehrig was born with the name Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig. His parents changed it to Henry Louis Gehrig during WWI.

Actually Cal's streak ended when I went on strike...

Did he play the piano?

Good strategy for clicks. No way they didn't speak for 7 years. Gherig didn't have the type of personality that would inspire that type of lasting animosity.

4:33 Funny.

Good video! (Except for the Lakers clips and the over-extended unfunny joke about the different teams Ruth was traded to - sorry). But a few corrections. Christy Mathewson was never boring -especially in the 1920s. He retired in 1916. The Yankee manager was Joe McCarthy not "Joe McCartney". Ruth's single season home run record stood for 34 years, not 40. You imply upon Ruth's death that Yankee Stadium would "come to be known as" The House That Ruth Built. It actually was referred to as that from the day it opened in 1923.

It seems like these two were good guy/bad guy.

Are we sure about this? Seven years? You are just messing around.

babe ruth goat

This is amazing

It's because they were lovers

No such thing as karma, Ruth drunk & treated his body terribly. Gehrig did everything right gets ALS...

He picked your grandma up before games and had his way with her 😂😂😂

Ruth is looking a little “colored” isn’t he ?