Let’s Talk About Babe Ruth 

Nobody is close to Ruth.

What's amazing that in 2022 we are still talking about Babe Ruth!

Not only that, he was the best left-handed *PITCHER* in the league for 4 years with a lifetime ERA of 2.28!

One of the records from ruth that won't be broken is he pitched 14 innings in a world series game in 1918 and by the way he won that game.

The best stat to show how dominant and game-changing Ruth was is: In 1920, Babe Ruth hit 54 home runs. Not counting the Yankees, Only one other TEAM - the Philadelphia Phillies, hit more than 50 Home Runs that year. (The St. Louis Browns hit exactly 50)

He could’ve had 900-1000 homeruns if he was a hitter at 20. That’s 5 years of no hitting and he still became the goat

None of those guys did what Ruth did. He is the greatest of the great.

Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat is the greatest baseball player of all time.

Remember that Bonds was loaded with Steroids......Babe with Beer.

All these top comments and not a one mentioning that Ruth also still leads the all time WAR leaderboard and always will because his own skillset was just so far ahead of the other players of his era.

Yes, he is. By far.

Fences were much further out than the homerun fended in today’s ball parks.

To accurately compare, you'd have to put Babe Ruth in the modern game, in modern times---in other words, growing up in the 1980s or 90s with the advances in conditioning, nutrition, and baseball specific training. Also air travel compared to rolling around on trains. Conversely, someone like Ohtani or Bonds would have to be put in Ruths' era, with no one throwing 100MPH, but lacking the advances mentioned above. Long story short, it's next to impossible to compare players from different eras. You COULD argue Ruth dominated his era like no one since has.

Patterned his swing after the great Joe Jackson

Some years ago I knew a man named Luther "Red" Harvel. Red was a retired major league scout who played a season with the Indians back in 1928. Ruth made quite an impression on him. He told me that "you'd be surprised at just how fast he could run" and "you didn't go for an extra base against his arm." The second sounds like the voice of experience.

Yes, the Babe is

Ruth created Goats

He is the 🐐

No bouts adoubt it.

Amen , and I would take Bonds off any list ,he belongs in the hall of shame ,But even he was juiced up he still could not rival the Babe

Babe Ruth is without question the GOAT, because he is the only baseball player who is a Hall of Famer as a hitter and pitcher. (As a pitcher, Ruth is 94-46 (a 67% winning percentage), led the majors in ERA in 1916 (1.75), and still holds the record for most innings pitched in a single World Series game (14 innings). He / Boston won that game, and the series.)

Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali have to be the 2 most revered sports figures in history. 110% mythic.

Yes, he is the greatest ever. Period.

Babe, is the greatest of all time.

babe is the king

First to hit a 500’ hr

I believe that he is

NO DOUBT THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME.

Jimmie Foxx actually hit 60 HRs in 1932 but 2 were erased because games were called because of rain. He also pitched. :)

Oh, yes, for sure. No one else compares.

Finally, a video or a source of info that talks at least a little about the Babe's defensive game. He was a high percentage outfielder as well and as a fielding pitcher he had to have done well also. That's a more complete assessment overall of Babe Ruth which removes any doubt about him being the g.o.a.t.

Retire this legends # throughout MLB He deserves it!!!! It should've happened long before Jackie Robinson!!! No name is more synonymous with the game than Babe Ruth!!!!

The stadium concept was invented because of the Babe hence the house that Ruth built

A couple of things that make the Babe even more remarkable, as others have pointed out. If he had been a hitter his whole career, he would likely still hold the record for most homeruns ever, not even counting he played his first 4 years in the dead ball era. Also, MLB had a rule back then that even if the ball went over the wall in fair ground, if it landed foul (like wrapping around the back side of the foul pole) it was a foul ball. This also likely took homeruns away from Ruth. The dude easily could have had over 800 if he'd have played a couple of years later and in the field more. "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104" by Bill Jenkinson is an excellent read about this.

Babe’s craziest record is the 457 total bases he had in 1921. No one has even approached that number in almost 100 years. He also had a record 119 extra-base hits that year.

Something about the way you said it made it seem to me like Ruth lost more World Series than I thought he did... But he was 7 for 10.

You should do a What If for Mickey Mantle. He's the only man that would've truly competed for the title of GOAT with Ruth

The only thing I question about all players of that era is how to judge the quality of competition around the league. Compared to today, how do you know if the rest of the league are more at the level of a AAA player today?

Barry bonds broke it with steroids

According to the Ken Burns documentary, there was a season where Ruth hit more home runs than every TEAM except the Philadelphia A's (1920). I fact checked and....incredibly its true.

If he's hittin baseballs like it was nothing, imagine gettin, slugged by this dude.

Something nobody ever mentions... yes, he was a pitcher with lower home run totals, but the key is the dead vs live ball era that he almost perfectly aligns to. He hit 29 home runs in 130 games in 1919! That was dead ball era. If his career had fell solely in the live ball era, his skills would have been seen sooner and juiced or not, he'd be on top. Written as an anti-Yankee. Great channel BTW.

Nolan Ryan...Pete Rose....Babe Ruth...

He did all that he did having started his career as a pitcher, and living on hotdogs and beer! Can you imagine what he could have accomplished eating right, working out and popping steroids like some of these modern dudes? Also, nowadays, homerun leaders routinely have several other players hot on their heels! When Ruth was leading the league in homeruns he was hitting more than entire other teams!

Look at what he was playing against.

The Goat hands down

Yes babe ruth still the goat

Yes! He was the GOAT! For my 9th birthday I wanted and received a Bath Ruth bat and ball.

What people nowadays tend to forget os that the ballparks were SO much bigger 100+ years ago. You didn't have 315ft homers over the right field wall. They STARTED at like 365ft.

For sure

Yes

He was indeed the goat...of the 1926 World Series! Which in Game 7 for some inexplicable reason tried to steal second and was caught for the final out and losing the WS as a result. It remains the only time in WS history that the final out was from being caught stealing.

He is a god given inspiration.

Him or Ty Cobb. The fact Ruth was among the best pitchers ever so he gets the edge.

The greatest. Bar none.

babe ruth is the goat , tom brady is the goat and gretzky is the goat and i say jordan is the nba goat everyone knows these are the 4 goats in major us Team sports end of story

He was hitting more home runs than any other TEAM. And Brady has more SBs wins than any single FRANCHISE. A big part of GOAT status is comparison to your contemporaries. Because it’s so hard to judge people of different eras. But it’s easier to judge how good a player is versus his contemporaries versus how good another player is versus their contemporaries. No one in MLB history was THAT much better than the other players of their time...

Ruth is the greatest athlete all time. He even did it drunk.

Yes, he is

It's all about that swing

Look at it this way, if we only had one professional sport for all athletes would the others be as dominant

"In his time and not today".

THANK YOU! This is so obvious and so many people don’t realize it. BABE RUTH IS THE GOAT.

barry bonds is a roid cheater and never will be the goat . everyone knows baseball have one goat and its Babe ruth

to me he did what no other player had done yet behind the plate. and kept doing it consistantly. He dwarfs barry bonds. and any other. i have 0 doubt the others are better athelets.... but how good would they of done in that era? on those salaries? Babe made the sport what it is today. and if u only care about wins, he has more rings then any of them. and you mentioned at the end as well. he could also pitch really well. Cy young quality early on. and who knows career wise. even with his poor training, and etc he was out basing, hitting, walking everyone. give him todays trainers etc........and or factor his home runs to today standards. he be hitting over 100 home runs a season.... the guy was a beast. pure and simple. no one is even close i guess maybe hank. i struggle to put bonds in the list because of his roid use. def mvp player. yes but without the roids he faded off sooner......... maybe capped out around 500 homers.

Why does this sound like a grown up Napolitano dynamite

My baseball Rushmore is (from top to bottom) Ruth, Mays, Aaron, and Cobb.

I have no problem saying that Babe Ruth is THE most important player in baseball history, but I wonder...If he had played his entire career outside the Polo Grounds and Old Yankee Stadium, would he have hit as many homers? Both stadiums had very short porches in right field, making it far easier to get a ball over the fence. I don't know, but he did revolutionize the sport almost single handedly.

He's the best all around baseball player who ever lived - 100 yrs from now people will still know who "The Babe" was

Yes. Next video....

He hit 700+ home runs while pitching a few seasons imagine if he focused on hitting his entire career I believe he would have 800 maybe 900 home runs and maybe could have got close to 1000 so he is the greatest player of all time🐐

0:30 takes my breath away everytime

I'm pretty sure Napoleon Dynamite is narrating this

I agree that the Babe is the GOAT, but without the Negro League Players like Josh Gibson being considered, there is a gap. The thing is, that's just too hard to do with the Negro League players as the history and stats is kind of sketchy.

All this during the dead ball era while swinging logs.

If you didn't play against everybody, you can't be the best. Pre-integration players have no place in the discussion for greatest ever.

.376 not even the best average in 1920. Wild

It's head and shoulders above every other GOAT maybe Wilt can match in statistical dominance, Gretzky couldn't get it done without Messier. Brady's numbers aren't that impressive and can be credited to longevity.

Bonds should not be on that list because of his cheating

The thing is if he didn’t become a position player he would have been a hall of fame pitcher. I can’t think of any player, other than Ohtani, who could master both skill sets. That’s why I put Ruth number 1

I AGREE

BABE-#1

He was Ohtani before Ohtani existed. He had a Career 2.27 ERA and a career batting average of .342

The 4 players you mentioned are goats 🐐. Babe is the Swiss Army knife goat 🐐. Hank is the right handed home run hitting goat 🐐. Barry is the left handed home run hitting goat 🐐. Say hey kid is gold glove goat 🐐. Teddy did miss 5 seasons due to his service in the military, but he is thee hitting for average goat 🐐. Of the 5 goats is like on MJ level of being called the goat 🐐 is George Herman Ruth.

Hitter and pitcher, truly the greatest

10:31 *One* of the most famous moments in baseball in history? Try *the* most famous moment in baseball history. The Babe's called shot is arguably the most iconic moment in all of 20th century sports

Barry Bonds and it's not even close. Babe Ruth played against 5'9" farmers, Bonds played in the era of giants.

I definitely have to say Ruth is the Goat

👍👑🐐☝️

It's sort of senseless to compare players from different eras. Some of those short or skinny guys from Depression era ball - ordinary guys - many of whom smoked and worked stocking shelves in the off season, could scarcely be able to compete against today's players. Of course there were exceptions. I can't imagine Ruth retooling his swing to deal with high velocity pitching that is common today. Watch film of say, Whitey Ford who was a top pitcher when I was a kid. He's throwing in the middle to high 80's. There are many kids in high school today who throw harder than that.

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The babe had that HGH body before it was a thing. Crazy to think how high his average was with the swing that he had.

No disrespect for the great Bambino but he played against farmers and second tier players, no people of color and limited competition. It would be like Michael Jordan playing at the Rec league, he would destroy everybody. The NBA Celtics championships are suspect too.

Wasn't it 350 to right field and 295 down the right field line at Yankee Stadium when Ruth was playing there? No wonder he hit so many home runs. It's impossible to compare players from different eras with the different equipment, rules and strategies. During Ruth's era, over 45% of the games were complete games. Now with advanced analytics and the reliance on relief pitching, under 3% are complete games. That means the great players of the early days of baseball were often hitting against tired and poorly performing pitchers. And can we forget that black and brown players were EXCLUDED from MLB until 1947? I don't.

He is.

This stat alone has him as the GOAT he stole Home Plate 10 times no one in the game even all the GOATS of Base Steals don’t even come close. And as fat and slow as he was that’s incredible. Then add ALL His other stuff on top of that and you have the ALL TIME GREATEST PLAYER AND PERSONALITY.

Everyone knows, but won't admit. Babe is the real goat of baseball. Gretzky is the real goat of Hockey. Brady is the real goat of football and Jordan is the real goat of basketball

"GOAT-ness" is a function of how high you rise above both your contemporaries AND all those who came before you. It's why Mario Lemieux will never be "THE" Great One, but merely A great one, for example, as he already had Gretzky's shoulders to stand on. And it's why no one meets The Babe's standard but a VERY, VERY select few: Gretzky, Wilt Chamberlain, Jack Nicklaus and probably Bobby Jones, in American sports terms, anyway. Pele might be another (I'm not as versed in world football history, I'm afraid). Because simply besting some previous record like "Career Home Runs" is nothing if all you are is one guy out of a whole crowd of them bearing down on the record that's stood for half a century or more. A record which surpassed the PREVIOUS mark by a factor of 10 the way Ruth's accomplishments more or less did. It's The Babe. End of story. SIDE NOTE: Oh, plus the pitching!

Should have replaced Hank Aaron with Alex Rodriguez. Straight up.

Ok, since it’s 2023, let’s be real, the Babe dominated when MLB was whites only, blacks were banned. As you show, once the ban was lifted, the 3 greatest players were all black. That tells me if Ruth played with black players, he likely wouldn’t have been Babe Ruth, just George Ruth.