Opening of the Baseball Hall of Fame with Babe Ruth and Cy Young 

Eric Selvig who gives a fuck

I do because I'm a fan of Hall of Famers no matter dead or alive. Respect people please

Christy Mathewson was the kind of man mothers and fathers dream about for their daughters.

Thanks I was just going to Google the 1st class HOF

@@carmine4878 Knock it off. Now, mister.

It was pretty grainy film if you can find deadball era film from when they played

ALMOST HALLOWED GROUND..

Greats like Ruth could play and succeed in any era.

@Janelle Dunn babe ruth got homeruns records: hitting records & records off the baseball field like eating hotdogs beers ; woman etc etc

they didnt allow black or international players than...babe ruth was a joke

@@tednguyen7258 satchel paige balk the baseball ;; like harlem globetroller vs NBA basketball league late 1940s

@@tednguyen7258 How many white players were in the Negro leagues ? It goes both ways. Remember that buster !

yes.

What's up Denton?

How is mussina a hall of famer lol

@@andrewmcgill9544 Simple, 270 victories pitching all his career for two of the teams of the East Division, the toughest of the AL, and being one of the most reliable pitchers of his era, that's how.

LUIS, WHAT A GREAT COMMENT!

@@jiwbink Do not know if you mean my visit to Cooperstown or Mussina's defense but Thank You, either way !

​@@andrewmcgill9544 You lol. Because you're stupid ol.

April Porter..Amen Babe Ruth was a hero to many many children tens of thousands of children he would sign autographs for hours and hours and as long as there were kids waiting he would sign for them. Visiting sick children in hospitals knowing they would not live past a few months and he would give them a smile and in return he said he learned what true bravery and courage was like when he saw it in the eyes of a nine year old with terminal Cancer. The Babe was an orphan whose own mom and dad gave him away to live in an orphanage. It makes his parents seem bad, but the Babe was in a word Incorrigible. He never listened to his dad and always misbehaved. At 5 years old he would cuss at every adult he saw, including cops, using language that would shock even sailors. His dad owned a bar and young Georgie learned all these words in the worst part of Baltimore. He was a very bad kid, a very very messed up kid. It took the hard discipline of a tall no nonsense priest to tan his hide but real good. Everytime he misbehaved he got it on the back side and firm. Brother Matthias believed what the Bible said..."if you spare the rod you will spoil the child." "Discipline drives the spoiled rottenness far way from a child." Finally..."if you Love your child you will discipline him, if you hate your child you will not discipline them." Babe Ruth is a living example of targeted discipline with Love. Of course once he became 18 years old and all the excess of money it was like a child in a candy store with no rules so the Babe went nuts spending money and having sex with hundreds of women. He did that for many years and divorced his first wife, actually just abandoned her but his second wife straightened him out and was a very good wife for the Babe until he passed away at 54 from Cancer. A storybook Life as the world's greatest Baseball player and this truly can be said without argument or debate when you factor that his first full five years in MLB was as a great Lefty pitcher winning bigtime games in the world series. While he pitched in his 4 at bats he was the best hitter on the team on that day. So he pitched every 4th game and played RF the other times and was a great hitter. Once the Yankees got him in 1920 he hit 59 home runs and changed the game of Baseball forever. Truly an incredible man.

@@jbjoeychic still played Santa while ravaged by the big C.

Yes. It's a bit off the beaten path. You don't get there by accident. Once a baseball fan gets to Cooperstown, It's a great place. It's worth a long, long visit.

Wow

Yes thanks

They couldn't all go in on the first ballot. Hard to argue against Walter Johnson and Christy Mathewson being the greatest pitchers up to that time. Young had to wait a year. (As did Tris Speaker behind Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth in the outfield; Nap Lajoie behind Honus Wagner in the infield.) Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander had to wait two years and was the only player voted in the class of 1938. Perhaps the wait was related to his drinking as the player's character was supposed to be a factor. One of the greatest hitters ever (a pair of seasons over .400) and also one of the best fielding first basemen ever, George Sisler, had to wait until 1939.

I agree!

@@loissimmons6558 -Denton True "Cy" Young preceded Matthewson and Johnson and is the all time leader in wins. There is a strong case for him being among the inaugural inductees. And as great as Christy and Walter were there are no major awards named after them.

@@jerrybrownell3633 It's the age old argument of how important is longevity. Young was also the all time leader in losses. And it should be noted that the award named after him did not occur until about 45 years after his career was over. The HOF voting was only about 25 years after his career ended, 20 years after Mathewson's career ended and less than 10 years after Johnson's ended. Those voters would have been more familiar with having seen all three pitch. In particular they would have seen Johnson pitch in the more hitter friendly lively ball era. I'm sure many people also voted for Young on the first ballot, but just not enough to get him in until a year later. The consensus was that Young may have had the quantity, but Johnson and Mathewson had better quality. And there are many who have not made the Hall on their first ballot. It seems to me looking back on all the years I have been a baseball fan that we are more obsessed with first ballot than we were years ago. 50 years ago or so when I was a teenager, players were honored just to be selected. And that first vote in particular had to be intense, to pick the top players of 60+ years of baseball history. No players today have to compete to that extent. No voters today have to choose among so many candidates.

@@jerrybrownell3633 No major awards means diddly-squat.

❤babe ruth my hero, master homerun hitter

👍😁

He was older than any 40.

@@Grizzlied555 Thanks!!! xoxo The Clarences

Howd you do on that project?

Yep and was smart enough not be in on the 1919 fix with the white sox.

@@MrAitraining yoo bad as a front office giy he wasnt smart enough to intergrate the redsox

@@scottaznavourian7617 He was hardly unique. The bastard commissioner in this footage would have forbade it.

And a racist piece of shit, too.

@@rayjr62 Haven't read what Collins feelings were. I know his boss Tom Yawkey was no doubt but today we also see alot of reverse racism or Biden is a racist and the media looks the other way so with all the phony media outrage and ignoring all the reverse racism like how Condi Rice was treated by the democrats there is only one conclusion. Many people suck and many are full of sh*t.

No he does not

Brett Favre

Walter Johnson the GOAT.

Truth

Me.

On this date, rather.

@@terminat1 Mind your own fkn business.

Your memory has left you,Denton.You went in in 1937,one year later.You should have been the first pitcher inducted,however.

@@nibiruplanetx784 He's right. No one was inducted till 1939. That's what this film depicts.

Not really true.

Babe Ruth > Ty Cobb

Hank Hill?

And that's important why?

@@keithhyttinen8275 Because I SAY so, douche.

bro shut up

Back when blacks couldn't play

No. So what?

Agreed. Plus Shoeless Joe.

61 steroid free home runs speaks for itself.

Maris was a solid all around player but he only had 3 Hall of Fame seasons including his 2 MVP- seasons of 1960 and 1961.

Can"t lived on 61 homerun seasin 1961 ; like jimmy rice 1978 maricle season

Babe Ruth, best ever.

@@roccomarchegiano5990 Best beer drinker biggest beer belly

@@jaymuise6924 .342/714/2,214/2,174/.690/

@@roccomarchegiano5990 ❤️ babe ruth:: my hero ; babe ruth wouldve chewup satchel paige fastball & other pitches

At the time,Abner Doubleday took credit in inventing the game with the first known game played in Cooperstown. A wealthy family in Cooperstown came forward to build the Hall Of Fame and pay for it,it was approved by the Major League Baseball.The idea of having the Hall was from the wealthy family,not from the MLB. No one else before 1936 came up with the idea of establishing a Baseball Hall Of Fame.

wilber53 Actually, Doubleday himself never took credit for inventing the game. It was bestowed on him after he died - mostly as the result of a claim made by one Abner Graves, who was three years old when he supposedly saw Doubleday invent it, and later spent time in an asylum. Doubleday was a plebe at West Point at the time he was supposed to be in Cooperstown inventing baseball...

@@brad9956 Not true

Joe meathead To keep nobodies such as yourself away...