On July 18th 1921 the Babe hit his 139th homerun, breaking Roger Conners all-time career record. Every one he hit after that was a new record until he finished with 714!
Babe Ruth's accomplishments as a hitter are unfathomable. He hit more home runs by himself than entire teams hit. If someone were to do that now, he'd have to hit way over 200 home runs per year. AND he hit for very high average. AND he was a great pitcher. Simply the Best Ever.
Nah ohtani has passed em And this fatty played with all slow white guys .. if he was in todays talent he’d be getting worked lol othani the goat not even close
No, if someone were to do that now theyd just have to play against the league Ruth did lol. It’s a cool history fact but it’s silly to act like his accomplishments would scale up in todays era as opposed to scaling down.
When you combine Ruth’s overall talents with pitching and hitting, and his huge influence on the game itself, Ruth stands as the greatest player of all time.
We just went to a Yankees game on 4/13 at the new stadium. We stopped by the original stadium across the street and it was magical!!! Walking into the new stadium and seeing all of the posters of the greatest players ever - Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Berra, DiMaggio - was awesome! My 9 y.o. baseball player had a blast!
@@LegendaryNuggets i did, the average pitch speed in the 1920s was 70mph, the average pitch speed today is 92mph. Obviously there are a few outliers, but on average guys back then are no where near todays level in terms of pitching speed
I like the highlight at 3.55. Ruth was 40 and playing in an exhibition game in Buffalo. It shows the power of his swing even at that age. You can tell he knocked it out of the stadium because as he rounded first you can see the fans looking over the back wall in the outfield bleachers.
@@brnape707look up walter johnson bud, plenty of guys sat in the high 80s low 90s, with some like walt clocking 95. Ruth didn’t play in the dead ball era why do people associate 60mph throwers in his prime/era? Dead ball was 1880 - 1910s
anyone remember going to babe ruths resteraunt..? I was like 5-10 probably in 1990s when I went there frequently. The entrance had a home plate when you walked up to the door, & EVERY booth had a personal tiny televsion. and yes back then it was probably black and white :P my god i loved that place
Cus there WAS NONE IDIOT if there was they'd all be watching Marilyn Monroe's sextape in between bats or some shit lol smh stop with this "back in the day" crap it's lame and not true!
I realize that its projection but if he was a full time player his first 5 seasons he would have had over 900 homers and possibly 2800 rbi and nobody would have come close to those numbers Ruth was an absolute monster at the plate with a 342 csreer batting average and minimal strikeouts at bat His reflexes were cat quick and hand eye coordination had to be phenomenal
He's mainly known for his hitting but Ruth was a freaking ace too. Just for some # comparisons... Babe Ruth - 2.28 (17th lowest of all time) Kershaw - 2.48 Cy Young - 2.62 Pedro Martinez - 2.92 Greg Maddux - 3.16 Nolan Ryan - 3.19 Verlander 3.32
Babe Ruth was a one of a kind original superstar, being a great slugger and great pitcher, I can't think of anybody else who could hit and pitch like him
@@neilwattoo he isnt. he is a check down passer who plays on god squads. people call him humble for taking pay cuts but call kd a snake for taking pay cuts to play on better teams. he is a diva double standard in action.
Today is the 2024 Home Run Derby then Went from watching Ken Griffey Jr. highlights to looking up Babe Ruth. The way my Great Grandfather talked about this man… sheesh. He was like bigger than Jesus back then!!! Crazy
Babe was a legendary baseball player, his stats are proof of his greatness. Nobody has ever made an impact on the game of baseball as he has. Babe is the greatest baseball player of all time, followed by Ty Cobb
Are my eyes deceiving me? Is Babe Ruth admiring his home runs?? All the "get off my lawn" people told me only modern players admired their home runs..Oh well ! Myth debunked
they served up meatballs down the middle or the occasional garbage offspeed. the spin rate, velocity, movement of todays sinkers sliders alone would have him batting exactly zero at the plate.. maybe .0001 if he adjusted the huge drop of the hands before the swing, unathletic stance
I know hes one of the greatest of all time but I just can't do picture him doing so well in today's game, wouldn't know what to do with the pitchers and speed of it now
@@MrThemanofspeed exactly. If the guy could hit a ball that far that many times with none of the benefits of modern nutrition, weight training, coaching etc. imagine what he could do with all of the modern advantages.
@@jimmyolsen5897 You have to look at the level of competition though. The average pitching speed in the Babe Ruth era was 70mph, in the Ohtani era its 92mph, and theres a lot more variety in terms of the types of pitches thrown nowadays because guys are more skilled
People like to say he wouldn’t be good now a days. But that swing is amongst the best in todays game. And he’s swinging 45 ounces of lumber. I think he’s be up there with Shohei in my opinion. Especially with the training now a days.
Such a different time. Big fat guy running around out there, sometimes hungover, sometimes half drunk after going from the bar straight to games. Just a totally different world thats hard to fathom nearly 100 years later. Mlb is such a big, refined, serious business now that it was not back then.
Cecil Fielders swing reminds of Ruth’s a bit. The hand movement and step towards the ball are similar. I almost wonder if Cecil had seen Babe’s swing and took inspiration from it. Probably not since seeing footage of Ruth’s swing was hard to come by in the 80s. But it would make sense since they both had similar builds and power.
@@Grizzlied555 By saying similar power I meant both were in the top one percent of power hitters of there day and both played similar roles in the batting order for there teams. But even so have you seen how many times Cecil left Tiger stadium and other stadiums ? Cecil can’t be that far behind Ruth in terms of pure power. People can sometimes get a bit carried away with estimating the abilities of legends like Ruth decades after he played. I would agree Ruth probably had more overall power than Cecil but I don’t think the difference in power is as huge as people might think. Rewatch some of Cecil’s homerun highlights. Some of the longest homeruns ever hit on film without the aide of steroids. Plus Cecil was one of the few players pre steroids to hit 50 homers in a single season.
Babe's hitting stats were really good but imagine if he had pitched only. He probably wins 300 games and also remember he held the World Series record for scoreless innings pitched until the early 60s. Babe was 6'2" and 215 so he wasn't some random guy with power stats. If you think that the pitching wasn't great how come only Babe hit over 700 home runs?
