My Grandfather was a friend of Babe Ruth. He would arraign for Babe to pawn jewelry to the more exclusive Jewelry establishments . Regretfully, my Grandfather never asked him to sign any memorabilia.
Yeah, Ruth, flappers, Prohibition and maybe Lindberg and Gatsby: wonder if anyone/thing will be remembered as well and for as long from this age approximate: Donald Trump and Forrest Gump? And which was real and which a figment?
One of the most astonishing careers in any endeavour, not just baseball. You couldn’t dream up a character like him. I genuinely believe he could still be a dangerous hitter today by using all the modern conveniences of diet, physical education and science and equipment. His reflexes and eyesight are comparable to todays stars. He really was a spectacle, and gave people a distraction from the dreary 20s and wonder and amazement for the people. A true wonder of his time. I love watching him and I never had the luck to see him grace the field, I can only watch the films.
I really like your mini-docs. Last year I bought a magazine about Babe Ruth and his life and it was interesting. It's incredible how famous a baseball player could become in the time before television. Babe Ruth makes an appearance in Harold Lloyd's movie Speedy from 1928.
Search up the pictures of Babe Ruth's funeral viewing at Yankee Stadium..Long lines of people of all ages, races, and genders...tearful all and quite amazing.
Ruth was a great pitcher, on his way to win 300, great hitter, but average fielder whereas the true goats like Barry Bonds had no weakness followed by Mays, Griffey , Aaron , Frank Robinson , these played against the best when racial Barriers were ended
Dear Jeffrey: In bygone eras, people drank beer and wine often as a substitute for water. That's because water, especially tap water, tasted so bad back then. When I was in the 4th grade in 1958, a new student who had emigrated from Germany told us that kids being in a bar, usually with a parent, was common then in Germany. He cited the bad taste of German water too. People today can't appreciate how wonderful it is to have unlimited amounts of good tasting tap water. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
Well, age 7, he was in the "St.Mary's Industrial School for Boys" at age 7 and up to age 19. He would have remained there until age, 21 but the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Red Sox had custody of him until age, 21......
In 1918, he started playing in the outfield of first base for the Red Sox on the days he wasn't pitching. He appeared in 95 games, pitching in 20 of them. In 1919 he had appeared in 130 games, pitching in 17 of them. After his sale to the Yankees on Dec. 26, 1919, he made 5 pitching appearances over his 15 years with the Yankees. His other appearances with the Yankees were mostly as a corner outfielder. So his transition from a pitcher to an outfielder was somewhat gradual. Frazee had a number of shows on Broadway. The shows were not doing well so there was at least some pressure there to sell Babe Ruth and a number of other Red Sox players to fund his plays. It was said that the core of the Yankees of the early 1920s was really the Red Sox of the late teens. One final points: BABE RUTH IS NOT *ONE* OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS OF ALL TIME!! HE IS *THE* GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME!!
I fervently concur with you sir. Respectfully, you didn't mention that In those 5 games he pitched as a New York Yankee, "The Babe" went 5-0. That's right, undefeated. "The Babe" was a baseball god......Also, in 1935 "The Babe"(with the Boston Braves), had two home runs that didn't count as "home runs" because he didn't run the bases, he had a designated runner take over for him at first base. Fact. So "The Babe" really had hit 716 home runs! So Hank Aaron wasn't really the home run king until he hit #717.......
@@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817 So are you saying that the Babe Ruth movie where he hits a home run and then had someone run the bases for him was true? Good catch about his Yankees pitching record.
@@sdgakatbk Yeah, I have seen and own "The Babe" with John Goodman. I can't say for sure, but I've read a lot of books on "The Babe" and I've read that did actually happen. Nothing surprises me when It come to Babe Ruth, not even "The Called Shot"!.....Although Hank Aaron thought it was ridiculous......
Thanks for all of your work. It was interesting to learn the early years, too. I had a relative who played for the Cubs when Babe started. A nobody compared to the Big Bambino.
Good video.. Ruth hit all those Long Balls over the fence in only 15 years as a batter..Other great HR hitters took 20 years to do the same...Per At Bats nobody is close to the Babe in HRs..
I am new to your channel, this is the first I watched. I so enjoyed it, I never knew these things about the Babe. I'm gonna call my son, a sports fanatic, and tell him where to find this video. Thank you so much, for one of the most enjoyable;e vids I have seen.............rich...................acoG.....................................I happen to have a Babe Ruth Gold card, I'm gonna dig it out and put it on display for now.( and probably give it to my son.)
"Babe" Ruth was always listed as 6'2" 215lbs. He weighed 215lbs. at the time he went to the New York Yankees 1920. A few years later he balloned up to 260lbs. The Yankees never listed "The Babe" as 260lbs! Certainly not. They even gave the Yankees home uniforms "extra" pinstripes to make "The Babe" look thinner! Fact.
Ruth is still the home run king coming as he did during the era of the so-called "dead ball"... Aaron did it largely in Fulton County Stadium, so easy to hit a home run there it was called the "Launching Pad." When I was 8 years old in 1970, I saw Aaron hit a home run in the stadium against the Montreal Expos. Bonds, due to performance enhancing drugs is definitely not the real home run king. There should always be an asterisk next to his *762 homeruns.
The illness you mentioned in 1925 was probably NOT a sexually transmitted Disease. Many write this. More than likely it was because of his massive alcohol consumption. Quality control on homemade moonshine during prohibition was awful.
In the photos, Babe is shown wearing a catchers mitt and mask. The mitt is on his left hand. ??? I had heard that he was a catcher early on,...before the professional ranks. Interesting? Anyone have any clues?
9:00 -- Babe Ruth's HR record still has not been broken. He hit 60 HR in 154 games. He didn't even play in all the games that season. Aaron Judge took 162 games to hit 62 HR, and Marris had an * next to his record for years, since he got his 61 HR in 8 to 10 more games than Ruth did. We still haven't seen a drug tested and clean of steroids athlete hit 60 HR in 154 games or less to this day, since Ruth did it 100 yrs ago.
I have to embarrassingly admit that I experienced all three of those literally at eight years old. In my defense it was a one time trial of each one and I have to add that I smoked pot for the first time at eight years old as well. 1:08
That father's bar is still there, a strip club. The city wants to buy it and destroy bar but Greak owner fighting for it to be historic building. My Dad Leo, born 1901, was also at St Marys (he adored Babe) reform school where Catholic parents gave up custody of their children deemed uncontrollable. My fathers first son (Joe) was also deemed uncontrollable and was at St Marys. I too, was considered uncontrollable and my parents wanted St Marys to take custody (1956) of me, Patrick, but changed their mind. My father took me to that bar as patrons tossed pennies at me to pick up and laugh, same bar Babe's dad had.
He should of a had a lot more recorded home runs in the early days most of ball parks didn't have fences so some of his homeruns were triples that if they had fences would of been homeruns. A debatable number is said to be a thousand home runs.
No pep pills, no steroids, no weight routine (except lifting babes LOL), but on the other hand no (or maybe late career) night games, slightly shorter schedule, few (if any) time changes. Drank and womanized like a champ and 714 HR's--Holy Shit BAT Man!!!!!!! But being from San Francisco I will say the following about Bonds AND Mays: Candlestick and whatever the fuck they call the "new" park now are absolute bitches for home run hitters. Unlike Chicago, the wind never blows out, and it is also kind of heavy maritime often foggy air, unlike Arizona or Colorado. Plus it is cold as (cold) shit from a bodily standpoint. Maybe 8 of the 10 coldest times I ever experienced were at night games at either SF stadium in goddamned July......this is no exageration--I have seen entire sections of the upper deck where you could not see anyone's face, except their eyes, because they were so bundled up. Sorry to digress from the Babe, a TRUE AMERICAN GOD/LEGEND, BUT BASEBALL stirs up so many memories for me that they often just come pouring out--GREATEST GAME EVER PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!! I suspect many of you can relate!!!!!!
Barry Bonds and Willie Mays would've had way higher HR totals if those had played for almost any other MLB team that had a stadium was just at minimum decent for hitting jacks...
How good could be have been with modern conditioning, and modern sports medicine, if he tried to improve his performance with a better life style? Could he had hit 800 home runs with better sports medicine and a better of the fields lifestyle. In today's game he would probably perform much better.
Frazee selling Ruth was not “unclear”. Love the channel. But you got that wrong. It was clear at the time, Frazee cared more about Broadway than baseball, and he needed the money desperately to fund his broadway shows. No No Nanette was one of these shows.
There are many errors in this narration. The peak of his career was not 1927. It was 1921. The statement about modern teams having only a couple of power hitters is incorrect; today there are more hitters using a power approach than ever. His called shot was in the 1932 World Series, not in 1930. Etc etc.
