It's like stepping into a time machine Babe really gave Crystal clear instructions. No wonder he connected with kids. He seems to be a natural pitching coach for youngsters
This makes the Babe even more great. You rarely hear about his pitching accomplishments and this video brings it home that he was no slouch as a pitcher.. Amazing.
@@TheBatugan77 I know. That’s so crazy. I didn’t even know He pitched until I was like 13 or something like that and it shocked the heck out of Me I had known about Him as long as I knew anything about Baseball , so for almost 10 years already and hadn’t ever heard He was a pitcher I seriously probably started hearing about The Babe from My Dad when I was like 3yo As early as I can remember anything @ all He’s 1 of Thee GPOAT
In 1918 he was transitioning to an outfielder and with the shortage of players was asked to go back pitching full time as well as playing the field and from July 29 to August 31 started 9 games and completed 8 going 7-2. 1918 was a shortened season due to the war ending on September 2 but that was amazing pitching by Ruth. In 1918 in the second half of the season Ruth made 11 starts completing 10 going 9 and 2 with a 1.76 era! He also led the AL in home runs in only 317 at bats! Then in the 1918 WS he went back to pitching and made 2 starts pitching 17 innings going 2-0 with a 1.06 era! Not bad for a guy asked to go back into the starting rotation full time and by the way also batting 4th in the batting order. He still found time to lead the AL in home runs in only 317 at bats in Fenway Park, not known for helping left handed power hitters.
If Babe just pitched, he would have won 300 games. He held the record for scoreless innings in the World Series for nearly 50 years, that by itself should tell you about his greatness. Incredible.
pure class, what a gentleman and a great teacher. even if he didnt play, its obvious he had something to give to the world. oh yeah. that slow mo is very cool for early 1900s lol.
A little known tidbit about the Babe was that in his last year with the Yankees, at age 39, he pitched a complete game victory over the Red Sox. That was a remarkable achievement! There is no question that he’d have been a Hall of Fame pitcher.
It shows how stacked the Yankee staff was in the 20s that they didn't need to send a steady 20-game winner like Ruth to the mound every fourth game, yet they still won six pennants.
Nothing like The Babe! A real American Treasure for the ages! This stuff is pure gold for a baseball guy - like myself. Love seeing The Babe issue instruction - and love seeing him around the Kiddos. Magic! Such an American Experience.
Babe Ruth did something in 1916 that had not been done before, and has not been done since. He threw 320 + innings and allowed zero home runs. Even for the dead ball era, not allowing a single home run was ridiculous.
Yeah like, even as a pitcher, they gave him games at other points it seems, but that said, he only had like 200 games in his first few seasons combined. Man one hundred percent would still have the home run record at the very least given hed be getting double digit home runs each of those seasons
Maybe not. He had about 3.5 years where he focused mainly on pitching... in the dead ball era. His peak in the era was 29. There is no doubt in my mind he would have broken 750, though, and gotten to 3000 hits.
Search up the photos of the long lines of people at Yankee Stadium to view Babe Ruth's body before the funeral..Men, women, young people from every neighborhood and not a dry eye in the crowd.. Amazing tribute to the Bambino...
Any video featuring the greatest player ever is a "thumbs up". Especially when the teacher of pitching happened to be one of the greatest pitchers of his time.
I'd like to know if he threw the spitball, scuffball, shine ball, etc. These were legal in the years Ruth pitched (pre 1920), so they would not have been considered cheating. He pitched and played OF on non-pitching days in 1919 and broke the record for home runs that season with 29, and then, with his "sale" to the Yankees for the 1920 season, played outfield and hit everyday except typically at the end of the season when he usually pitched a game or two.
@@omnimediaassociatesllc7984 Doubt he threw a spitter, at least in games. The 17 pitchers that did were still allowed to continue even after it was banned in 1920, and he wasn't on that particular list.
@@davidharrison3711 Yes. They didn't want the guys that made their living using it to suddenly be out of a job just because they changed the rules on them. Had they been given advanced notice maybe it would've been different, but I think it was kind of a spontaneous decision. They did plan on having a one year grace period, but relented to just let them keep doing it until they retired. The final guy didn't retire until 1934. Kind of like NHL players wearing helmets, Craig McTavish was still without one until he retired in the the late 90s.
@@robertlduncan12 You see similar rules in the NHL today regarding visors on helmets. Players before a certain era are allowed to play without it as long as they sign a medical release.
ALL but one on the last day of the regular season, ALL against the Red Sox , against September call-ups and bench-warmers, against a makeshift lineup! 5.52 ERA, 31 innings, 40 hits, 16 walks, 5, yep, 5 strikeouts! Against minor leaguers and bench-warmers, in games that didn't matter whatsoever! Wasn't all that stellar his last two seasons in Boston, walked more batters than he struck out each season and gave up nearly a hit per inning pitched! He was a dead ball era pitcher ONLY!
@@keithleverette8235 you’re as full of crap as a Christmas turkey. That Ruth, the greatest player of his time and perhaps of all time, took the mound at all and won with the Yankees, after not training to pitch every forth day, was a remarkable achievement. Period.
@@HankFinkle11, Once a pitcher, always a hurler! He NEVER stopped throwing a baseball! And the inferior competition of the September call-ups and bench-warmers in a makeshift lineup was not very competitive, hence, a 5.52 ERA in his 5 victories as a Yankee, with hits by the opposition scored as errors, ERA still high, by the PITIFUL and PATHETIC HOME TEAM official scoring of his era! True ERA was much higher! The TRUTH has ALWAYS scared the shit outta y'all! 🤣😂😅
What a wonderful man, to take the time to film this, teaching boys how to pitch. My guess, filmed at the Wrigley Field in So. Central Los Angeles? Plus, probably taught those kids how to eat hot dogs and drink 6 beers.
I love the old timey mitts. When I was a kid in the early 70s, I had a Whitey Ford mitt that was really small and lumpy. By the late seventies they put out the larger modern mitts you see today.
WOW, this is priceless! He was a damn good pitcher before he started to hit home runs. As he demonstrates a knuckleball, I wonder how often did he throw it when he pitched?
@@AchillesWrath1 It still wouldn't have been difficult to keep his whole body in view, assuming this hasn't been re-edited. I've seen much better camerawork from the 1920s and 1930s in other baseball clips.
Great clip. Interesting note: Ruth became a full-time position player in 1920. But he did have five more pitching appearances from ‘20 until the end of his career. Five starts, five wins, two complete games. I doubt that feat had been replicated until Ohtani’s advent.
One of my favorite records that Babe Ruth holds and will likely never be broken is longest winning streak (in time) in baseball history as a pitcher. On July 25th 1919 Ruth won his 7th game of the season and never lost again, going 3-0 from that point in 1919, 1-0 in 1920, 2-0 in 1921, 1-0 in 1930, and 1-0 in 1933. Undefeated for 14 years, 2 months, 6 days. The only pitcher that almost came somewhat close to this is Satchel Paige believe it or not. Paige won his last game before retiring on Sep. 22, 1953 then came back for a one game cameo on Sep. 25, 1965 for the Athletics (one of Charlie Finley's publicity stunts) and started, pitching three innings and giving up only a single hit (A double to Carl Yastrzemski - another fun trivia answer). Unfortunately the As were pretty bad at the time and blew the lead in the 7th and lost the game, or Paige would have had a 12 year win streak to be second to Ruth.
3 and 0 with a .87 era in 3 WS starts with Boston. 65 and 33 from 1915 to 1917 as a starter in Boston before he started playing in the field on and off in 1918. In 1918 and 1919 he did both going 22-12 as a part time starter and hit 40 homers and 174 ribbies in 749 at bats in Fenway Park in the dead ball era leading the AL in homers both years. Hit around .315 with 60 doubles and 23 triples in only 749 at bats. Today they have the nerve to compare that Angels guy with the great Babe! Utterly Ridiculous!
@@out_the_crib_customs No problem, I learned something also. I always though Babe was basically a fastball, curveball pitcher with maybe a cutter. I never knew he threw a knuckleball. Here are some more amazing clutch WS stats. He lost in 1921 and 1922 to the NY Giants hitting .118 in 1922 and John McGraw went around cocky blasting the Babe as just a big lug and not a real ballplayer. Ruth went 7 for 33 with one homer. Well in 1923 against the Giants Ruth hit .368 with 3 homers and the Yankees won and they lost in 1926, won in 27 and 28 and lastly won in 32. In the 1923, 26, 27, 28, and 32 WS, Ruth went 34 for 85 hitting .400 with 14 homers and 25 ribbies. How is that for clutch? So in 1916 and 1918 Ruth won 2 WS and went 3-0 as a pitcher with a .87 era and then in 1923, 26, 27, 28, and 32 went 4-1 in the WS going 34 for 85 for a .400 average with 14 homers and 25 ribbies. Who has ever been more clutch? Guys like Lou Brock and Henry Aaron was clutch and great but not in 7 WS like Ruth as a pitcher and then a hitter winning 6 of 7. He also won the 1915 WS but didn't pitch as he was still technically a rookie as he only pitched 3 games in 1914. He was 20 years old in 1915 and Bill Carrigan the manager went with experience. Ruth made one pinch hitting appearance only!
@@out_the_crib_customs The Babe had good speed in his youth and stole 123 bases and had 506 doubles and 136 triples in only 8399 at bats. His rbi's per at bat are unreal at 3.79. 2214 ribbies in 8399 at bats. Everybody always talks Gehrig, Greenberg, or Williams who were amazing but none were close to Ruth. The amazing thing is with Ruth driving in so many runs how the hell did Gehrig also drive in so many? Gehrig played 4 full years without Ruth but also competed with DiMaggio in 3 full seasons of 36 to 38. Can you imagine the amount of base runners in the Ruth and Gehrig Yankee years? They had years scoring over 1,000 runs in a 154 game schedule. The 1930 to 32 Yankees scored over 1,000 runs and the 1936 Yankees scored over 1,000 runs. Amazing!
@@charlessupp2543 Exactly his last start in I think 33 he went all 9 innings and said afterward that's it as he could barely pick his arm up. He gave up like 11 or 12 hits I forget and 5 runs but gutted out a win. Even an aged Babe finished what he started as opposed to the nonsense we see today. 6 innings, I'm done!
When Ruth broke into baseball as a pitcher Ty Cobb was the best hitter. He pitched to Cobb many times. And Tris Speaker and Shoeless Joe. He struck them out. Imagine how those guys felt when their pitcher turned out to be a better HITTER than them!!!!!
With a decent fast ball a decent curve ball and a slower knuckleball he would be very hard to hit even today. The fastball requires fast reflexes to hit. The curve ball is slower and looks like a ball until it gets to the plate and a knuckle ball is impossible to hit unless you are looking for it.
Fast balls are overrated. Eddie Mathews said MLB hitters could hit a jet if it came through the strike zone. It's changing speeds, locations and timing that make pitching work.
I think the thing with fastballs is some of the best hitters could hit one in the 80s even looking for another pitch, but if you throw 100, the hitter has no chance if he was expecting a breaking ball.
Take the 749 at bats and multiple by 8 which would make a full season and Ruth in the dead ball era would of hit 32 homers, 139 ribbies, 48 doubles, and 18 triples.
I doubt he'd have 749ABs in a typical season. First, he was the all time leader in walks, so those would have been PAs but not ABs. And then, there was a 154 game season when he played. To really see the player he was, look at his career OPS.
Did Ruth actually throw a knuckleball? I knew he pitched of course, but I didn't know that was part of his arsenal on the mound. Or did he just kinda know the general mechanics and grip for a knuckleball, enough to talk about it, but not enough to actually use it pitching in an MLB game? I guess being that his pitching days were in the 1900s, there's probably no way to know for sure if he never threw one. It's not like games back then were all filmed and archived.
Pitchers back then knew how to throw every type of pitch. The main difference between then and now is that today the average pitch velocity is about 10mph faster, because pitchers are bigger and stronger.
@@gregb6469 An in shape Ruth was 6'2 and weighed 210, so he could throw pretty hard I'm sure. I've never read about him being what they called a fireballer like they always talked about Walter Johnson, so I'm doubting he hit 100, but low to mid 90s I think is quite likely. Average velocity would have been lower then because pitchers were expected to complete games so you only threw your fastest pitches when you really needed them. People today say they threw 80 or 85 mph fastballs, but there's no way as hitters back then would have been good enough to hit at least a double virtually every time against that kind of "heat". Maybe against catchers and shorstops who were considered more important for their defense. Of course it depends on what era you are talking about. In the actual deadball era when they wouldn't change balls and the players would sand it, spit tobacco juice on it etc, then speed wasn't that important, crazy movement was.
The kid holding the bat looks scared to death and the bat he's using is huge. Great footage but what's sad I everybody in this video is most likely dead.
They really didn't need to show any pitches in slow motion. I'd be shocked if Ruth ever threw in the mid nineties when pitching. Pitchers didn't exactly throw the kind of heat they throw in today's baseball. They relied more on movement over speed. Also, everything seemed like it was weighed down with lead back in those days. The balls weren't manufactured with aerodynamics in mind, and the bats were just smoothed out tree trunks that were extremely top heavy and unbalanced. A thirty home run season would be a legendary feat back then. Pretty cool footage though.
What couldn't he do in baseball ? Unfortunately I have never seen video of him in the outfield catching a fly, receiving a base hit or throwing the ball to the infield.
By all accounts he was a very good outfielder in his prime. Not one of the best ever, but well above average. There really wasn't anything he couldn't do.
Holy fucking cow! Never heard Babe Ruth speak before. I read two of his autobiographies, but never heard him speak on a video! Fuck this is cool. And I'm about to take a nap from drinking. And I came upon this??? The lefty from the Boston team that slammed over 90 percent of his unreal 714 fucking career homeruns as a New York Yankee? This legendary party machine whose many visits to children in hospitals were documented, and others visits not documented? This man wasn't even prejudice. Just a hitting, party machine! Shit, going to listen to this a few times. Thankyou to whomever brought this up on my phone screen. Fucking A! ⚾
@@out_the_crib_customs hey I'm honest. Even when almost passing out. Now I'm haven't passed out, but will drink green tea. Because I'm fully awake listening to Babe Ruth talked. I'm floored. I love this stuff. Going to play my 2007 PlayStation baseball. Hell, the Babe hanging out with kids is more then words can explain. Just that man talking about the basic fundamentals of hitting and fielding, also how to grip certain pitches before the release and throw, well it don't really get any better then this. Thanks again friend
I've read that Babe Ruth hung out with the power hitting catcher Josh Gibson just hitting long balls. Can you imagine if Josh Gibson lived long enough or more to be one of the first great black athletes to play in baseball just like Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Satchel Paige.
@@out_the_crib_customs That is one fact that I was always glad about, perhaps above anything else. I always loved baseball, the stats, the records, the dedicated team work, the stories, some stories and quotes really funny. But it's just always an added bonus, (even though it's really common sense as a decent human being) that such famous people such as Babe Ruth wasn't even prejudice. The good things so called researchers loved to ignore. They focus on the juicy stuff such as his drinking and his women. But this man gave his heart visiting kids in hospitals, even when their wasn't any reporters. Just something he loved to do. And he talked baseball with anybody. He was all about winning. When some teammates couldn't bring their A game to the field because a night on the town with Babe Ruth, Babe said they wouldn't party with him anymore. Also he didn't just hit the ball over the fence, numerous homeruns went long distances. See, there was a reason he hit about 400 more homeruns then any other player (not including Lou Gehrig about 475, and Jimmie Foxx and Mel Ott over 500 homeruns) in baseball. I loved reading his biographies. And this was about ten years later After I got introduced to Reading Rainbow on PBS. Hahaha. That's my last text lol. But just thought I share. Peace
people say would babe break records if he went against modern day pitching? Well considering babe did it with hot dogs and beer and not bunch of steroids and supplements these guys use these days
Babe Ruth would have been a great manager, too bad the Yankees and Boston Braves used him to draw money instead of making him manager. he would have carried the yankees as a manager for years i think.
Ruth was never one for obeying club rules. Nobody would hire him because the argument was "if he can't manage himself, how is he gonna manage 25 other people"?
Managing was something the Babe wouldn't have been good at. The Dodgers hired him to coach first base, mostly for show, and as expected, he was a disaster.
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It's like stepping into a time machine
Babe really gave Crystal clear instructions. No wonder he connected with kids. He seems to be a natural pitching coach for youngsters
You can tell he really enjoyed teaching the game. Always wanted to be a manager after he retired, but never got the opportunity.
It's such a shame that he never got that chance.
@@wvu05 they never took him seriously because of his persona and reputation. But he took his craft seriously. He worked hard at it.
@@Shinobi33 Indeed. Maybe taking players under his wing as a manager would have been just what the doctor ordered.
He was too "woke" for the time period.
@@Shinobi33they blackballed him because they knew he would've tried to integrate black players on his roster.
This makes the Babe even more great. You rarely hear about his pitching accomplishments and this video brings it home that he was no slouch as a pitcher.. Amazing.
cmon they were throwing like 80 mph back then, he's actually trash
He'd be in the HOF as.a pitcher, had he continued. He still holds records.
@@TheBatugan77 I know. That’s so crazy.
I didn’t even know He pitched until I was like 13 or something like that and it shocked the heck out of Me
I had known about Him as long as I knew anything about Baseball , so for almost 10 years already and hadn’t ever heard He was a pitcher
I seriously probably started hearing about The Babe from My Dad when I was like 3yo
As early as I can remember anything @ all
He’s 1 of Thee GPOAT
@@TheBatugan77 Johnson in 1916 and 17 was 48 and 36 with era's of 1.90 and 2.21.
Ruth in 1916 and 17 was 47 and 25 with era's of 1.75 and 2.01.
In 1918 he was transitioning to an outfielder and with the shortage of players was asked to go back pitching full time as well as playing the field and from July 29 to August 31 started 9 games and completed 8 going 7-2. 1918 was a shortened season due to the war ending on September 2 but that was amazing pitching by Ruth.
In 1918 in the second half of the season Ruth made 11 starts completing 10 going 9 and 2 with a 1.76 era!
He also led the AL in home runs in only 317 at bats!
Then in the 1918 WS he went back to pitching and made 2 starts pitching 17 innings going 2-0 with a 1.06 era!
Not bad for a guy asked to go back into the starting rotation full time and by the way also batting 4th in the batting order. He still found time to lead the AL in home runs in only 317 at bats in Fenway Park, not known for helping left handed power hitters.
If Babe just pitched, he would have won 300 games. He held the record for scoreless innings in the World Series for nearly 50 years, that by itself should tell you about his greatness. Incredible.
pure class, what a gentleman and a great teacher. even if he didnt play, its obvious he had something to give to the world. oh yeah. that slow mo is very cool for early 1900s lol.
Most folks probably don't know how dominant of a pitcher Ruth was.
Right! So true
He was so good that he had an ERA of 2.28 and was able to pitch 14 innings in Game 2 of the 1916 world series.
Actually most people who know about Ruth do know about his pitching ability.
❤️ babe ruth my hero
@@fezzik7619 Actually your a buzz kill. Some folks don't know alot about The Babe.
imagine being one of the kids in this video, so lucky.
I thought the same but I just realized... they're probably dead....
What if one was still alive
@@Friends18181 I’m sure one is, be about mid 90s
Umm I think they are orphans
Lucky to be dead!
A little known tidbit about the Babe was that in his last year with the Yankees, at age 39, he pitched a complete game victory over the Red Sox. That was a remarkable achievement!
There is no question that he’d have been a Hall of Fame pitcher.
I did not know that!
More than just Hall of Fame. One of the best pitchers in baseball history.
It shows how stacked the Yankee staff was in the 20s that they didn't need to send a steady 20-game winner like Ruth to the mound every fourth game, yet they still won six pennants.
Nothing like The Babe! A real American Treasure for the ages! This stuff is pure gold for a baseball guy - like myself. Love seeing The Babe issue instruction - and love seeing him around the Kiddos. Magic! Such an American Experience.
Had he not been a record setting pitcher for the first few years of his career, he would likely have had 800+ homers.
Babe Ruth did something in 1916 that had not been done before, and has not been done since. He threw 320 + innings and allowed zero home runs.
Even for the dead ball era, not allowing a single home run was ridiculous.
Yeah like, even as a pitcher, they gave him games at other points it seems, but that said, he only had like 200 games in his first few seasons combined. Man one hundred percent would still have the home run record at the very least given hed be getting double digit home runs each of those seasons
Maybe not. He had about 3.5 years where he focused mainly on pitching... in the dead ball era. His peak in the era was 29. There is no doubt in my mind he would have broken 750, though, and gotten to 3000 hits.
He was a great pitcher!
No one did more for kids than the Babe.
Search up the photos of the long lines of people at Yankee Stadium to view Babe Ruth's body before the funeral..Men, women, young people from every neighborhood and not a dry eye in the crowd..
Amazing tribute to the Bambino...
Thank you for sharing this rare video clip of Babe Ruth showing to kid's how to pitch!
Absolutely precious moments for these kids !
Any video featuring the greatest player ever is a "thumbs up". Especially when the teacher of pitching happened to be one of the greatest pitchers of his time.
Ruth pitched CG wins in 1930 and 1933. That made him 35 & 38. The man knew pitching. Not throwing, pitching.
Had no idea he threw a knuckleball. Nice find.
I'd like to know if he threw the spitball, scuffball, shine ball, etc. These were legal in the years Ruth pitched (pre 1920), so they would not have been considered cheating. He pitched and played OF on non-pitching days in 1919 and broke the record for home runs that season with 29, and then, with his "sale" to the Yankees for the 1920 season, played outfield and hit everyday except typically at the end of the season when he usually pitched a game or two.
@@omnimediaassociatesllc7984 Doubt he threw a spitter, at least in games. The 17 pitchers that did were still allowed to continue even after it was banned in 1920, and he wasn't on that particular list.
@@robertlduncan12 So, they "grandfathered" it in???
@@davidharrison3711 Yes. They didn't want the guys that made their living using it to suddenly be out of a job just because they changed the rules on them. Had they been given advanced notice maybe it would've been different, but I think it was kind of a spontaneous decision. They did plan on having a one year grace period, but relented to just let them keep doing it until they retired. The final guy didn't retire until 1934. Kind of like NHL players wearing helmets, Craig McTavish was still without one until he retired in the the late 90s.
@@robertlduncan12 You see similar rules in the NHL today regarding visors on helmets. Players before a certain era are allowed to play without it as long as they sign a medical release.
A wish I could have seen this when I was a kid. What a terrific clip.
Pitched 5 games for the Yankees after being traded. Won all 5!
ALL but one on the last day of the regular season, ALL against the Red Sox , against September call-ups and bench-warmers, against a makeshift lineup! 5.52 ERA, 31 innings, 40 hits, 16 walks, 5, yep, 5 strikeouts! Against minor leaguers and bench-warmers, in games that didn't matter whatsoever! Wasn't all that stellar his last two seasons in Boston, walked more batters than he struck out each season and gave up nearly a hit per inning pitched! He was a dead ball era pitcher ONLY!
@@keithleverette8235 More walks than strikeouts was the norm
@@HenrySosenite , Not with the true greats! Name one HOFer who consistently walked more batters than he struck out! Just ONE! 🤣😂😅
@@keithleverette8235 you’re as full of crap as a Christmas turkey. That Ruth, the greatest player of his time and perhaps of all time, took the mound at all and won with the Yankees, after not training to pitch every forth day, was a remarkable achievement. Period.
@@HankFinkle11, Once a pitcher, always a hurler! He NEVER stopped throwing a baseball! And the inferior competition of the September call-ups and bench-warmers in a makeshift lineup was not very competitive, hence, a 5.52 ERA in his 5 victories as a Yankee, with hits by the opposition scored as errors, ERA still high, by the PITIFUL and PATHETIC HOME TEAM official scoring of his era! True ERA was much higher! The TRUTH has ALWAYS scared the shit outta y'all! 🤣😂😅
I guess I’d be “bailing-out” at the plate too as a left handed kid with Ruth throwing strikes and curveballs at me.
Yes, and imagine Babe not worrying about helmets or lawyers like today. What a breath of fresh air!
Pitching lessons from the Babe--you can't beat that!
looks to me , Babe Ruth and Lefty Grove had very alike pitching motions, both great pitchers
This is so amazing. 1 of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen. Good looks on UL
What a wonderful man, to take the time to film this, teaching boys how to pitch. My guess, filmed at the Wrigley Field in So. Central Los Angeles?
Plus, probably taught those kids how to eat hot dogs and drink 6 beers.
Awesome video
thank you
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The Great "Babe"....it doesn't get any better!!
sure doesnt
I love the old timey mitts. When I was a kid in the early 70s, I had a Whitey Ford mitt that was really small and lumpy. By the late seventies they put out the larger modern mitts you see today.
I wish Babe Ruth was Still alive
Would be so awesome
Bruh if he was still alive, I would love to meet him. He's my favorite baseball player of all time
❤️ babe ruth , babe ruth still alive on internet
WOW, this is priceless! He was a damn good pitcher before he started to hit home runs. As he demonstrates a knuckleball, I wonder how often did he throw it when he pitched?
Greatest baseball player ever indeed period
The camera work leaves something to be desired. Great find! TY for uploading!
About the best they could do 100 years ago. Everyone didn't have iphones yet.
@@AchillesWrath1 no iPhones? Really?
@@AchillesWrath1 It still wouldn't have been difficult to keep his whole body in view, assuming this hasn't been re-edited. I've seen much better camerawork from the 1920s and 1930s in other baseball clips.
@@t-bo2734 true but the camera probably weighed 100 pounds haha
I think the top part of the picture was cut off to fit the width of the screen (cameras back then worked with a taller aspect ratio
Great clip. Interesting note: Ruth became a full-time position player in 1920. But he did have five more pitching appearances from ‘20 until the end of his career. Five starts, five wins, two complete games. I doubt that feat had been replicated until Ohtani’s advent.
This makes me wanna watch the movie, 'The Babe' again real bad!
awful movie. but this is a really cool video.
One of my favorite records that Babe Ruth holds and will likely never be broken is longest winning streak (in time) in baseball history as a pitcher. On July 25th 1919 Ruth won his 7th game of the season and never lost again, going 3-0 from that point in 1919, 1-0 in 1920, 2-0 in 1921, 1-0 in 1930, and 1-0 in 1933. Undefeated for 14 years, 2 months, 6 days. The only pitcher that almost came somewhat close to this is Satchel Paige believe it or not. Paige won his last game before retiring on Sep. 22, 1953 then came back for a one game cameo on Sep. 25, 1965 for the Athletics (one of Charlie Finley's publicity stunts) and started, pitching three innings and giving up only a single hit (A double to Carl Yastrzemski - another fun trivia answer). Unfortunately the As were pretty bad at the time and blew the lead in the 7th and lost the game, or Paige would have had a 12 year win streak to be second to Ruth.
I am pleased to see this side of the Babe!
This is serious, the greatest HR hitter of all time is teaching how to pitch. Did Barry Boot'em give pitching lessons? Sammy Juicer? Mark McSteroid?
And this is why I love the Great Bambino
Wow imagine being that kid at the plate and Babe Ruth was pitching to you.
Awesome feeling I bet. Surreal moment.
3 and 0 with a .87 era in 3 WS starts with Boston. 65 and 33 from 1915 to 1917 as a starter in Boston before he started playing in the field on and off in 1918.
In 1918 and 1919 he did both going 22-12 as a part time starter and hit 40 homers and 174 ribbies in 749 at bats in Fenway Park in the dead ball era leading the AL in homers both years. Hit around .315 with 60 doubles and 23 triples in only 749 at bats.
Today they have the nerve to compare that Angels guy with the great Babe!
Utterly Ridiculous!
Wow! Thanks for the stats. 23 triples for the babe is crazy along with everything else. .87 era with a knuckleball. 🤯
@@out_the_crib_customs No problem, I learned something also. I always though Babe was basically a fastball, curveball pitcher with maybe a cutter. I never knew he threw a knuckleball.
Here are some more amazing clutch WS stats. He lost in 1921 and 1922 to the NY Giants hitting .118 in 1922 and John McGraw went around cocky blasting the Babe as just a big lug and not a real ballplayer. Ruth went 7 for 33 with one homer.
Well in 1923 against the Giants Ruth hit .368 with 3 homers and the Yankees won and they lost in 1926, won in 27 and 28 and lastly won in 32.
In the 1923, 26, 27, 28, and 32 WS, Ruth went 34 for 85 hitting .400 with 14 homers and 25 ribbies. How is that for clutch?
So in 1916 and 1918 Ruth won 2 WS and went 3-0 as a pitcher with a .87 era and then in 1923, 26, 27, 28, and 32 went 4-1 in the WS going 34 for 85 for a .400 average with 14 homers and 25 ribbies.
Who has ever been more clutch?
Guys like Lou Brock and Henry Aaron was clutch and great but not in 7 WS like Ruth as a pitcher and then a hitter winning 6 of 7. He also won the 1915 WS but didn't pitch as he was still technically a rookie as he only pitched 3 games in 1914. He was 20 years old in 1915 and Bill Carrigan the manager went with experience. Ruth made one pinch hitting appearance only!
@@out_the_crib_customs The Babe had good speed in his youth and stole 123 bases and had 506 doubles and 136 triples in only 8399 at bats. His rbi's per at bat are unreal at 3.79. 2214 ribbies in 8399 at bats. Everybody always talks Gehrig, Greenberg, or Williams who were amazing but none were close to Ruth.
The amazing thing is with Ruth driving in so many runs how the hell did Gehrig also drive in so many? Gehrig played 4 full years without Ruth but also competed with DiMaggio in 3 full seasons of 36 to 38.
Can you imagine the amount of base runners in the Ruth and Gehrig Yankee years? They had years scoring over 1,000 runs in a 154 game schedule. The 1930 to 32 Yankees scored over 1,000 runs and the 1936 Yankees scored over 1,000 runs.
Amazing!
Pitched 5 games for the Yankees after thr trade. Won all 5!
@@charlessupp2543 Exactly his last start in I think 33 he went all 9 innings and said afterward that's it as he could barely pick his arm up. He gave up like 11 or 12 hits I forget and 5 runs but gutted out a win. Even an aged Babe finished what he started as opposed to the nonsense we see today. 6 innings, I'm done!
Incredible video
George Herman Ruth
The Babe
So…the Babe could also throw a knuckleball. No wonder he was a great pitcher too.
I never knew that either until this vid
And I thought that Hoyt Wilhelm was the first knuckleballer.
this is my first time hearing Ruths voice it’s surprisingly different than what I thought
His legacy will never die. Greatest baseball player of all time.
Those kids are so lucky. One highlight of their lives
The King 🤴 of baseball ⚾️
Thank you for the treat.
He would have been a HOF pitcher.
he was a pitcher
Fun fact:The 1926 World Series ended when Babe was thrown out trying to steal second.
Thanks I did not know that wow 🤯
@@out_the_crib_customs he did steal 123 bases tho and home 10 times
@@zenaidaalexandra9194 Yep!
Watching this makes me want to build a baseball diamond in a cornfield. If I build it, the Babe will come!
Wow - never saw this. The all time Natural.
we miss you babe
When Ruth broke into baseball as a pitcher Ty Cobb was the best hitter. He pitched to Cobb many times. And Tris Speaker and Shoeless Joe. He struck them out. Imagine how those guys felt when their pitcher turned out to be a better HITTER than them!!!!!
Babe Ruth and ty Cobb they greats
big facts
With a decent fast ball a decent curve ball and a slower knuckleball he would be very hard to hit even today. The fastball requires fast reflexes to hit. The curve ball is slower and looks like a ball until it gets to the plate and a knuckle ball is impossible to hit unless you are looking for it.
Would be a Hall of Fame pitcher had he continued.
Nope, he was a dead ball era pitcher ONLY!
@@keithleverette8235 easily would have been a Hall of Fame pitcher.
I've never heard Babe talk before. This must have been after he retired?
Does anyone know when this was filmed? Since he has a Yankee uniform and there's sound, it obviously has to be 1927-34, but anything more specific?
Today they use the word mentor back in Ruth's he was called a role model.
Those were the luckiest kids in the world right there.
Foreal tho
....Babe Ruth WAS baseball !!...
Fact
how cool is this!
when they all started saying fast ball curve ball i was like laughing so hard
Amazing clip.
Thank u
Fast balls are overrated. Eddie Mathews said MLB hitters could hit a jet if it came through the strike zone. It's changing speeds, locations and timing that make pitching work.
Fastballs are great, if the batter is looking for something off-speed.
I think the thing with fastballs is some of the best hitters could hit one in the 80s even looking for another pitch, but if you throw 100, the hitter has no chance if he was expecting a breaking ball.
I didn't know Ruth threw a knuckleball,but he didn't say how to catch it,nobody knows where it is going,interesting demonstration of basic pitches!
Didn't know he knew how to throw a knuckleball.
Amazing isn’t it
I wonder if he ever threw a spitball. I've never heard that he did or didn't.
@@sdgakatbk Great questions, as a lot of them did back then..
Babe Ruth sounds exactly like he looks
I don't understand
Playback at .5 speed gives you the authentic Ruth
Take the 749 at bats and multiple by 8 which would make a full season and Ruth in the dead ball era would of hit 32 homers, 139 ribbies, 48 doubles, and 18 triples.
I doubt he'd have 749ABs in a typical season. First, he was the all time leader in walks, so those would have been PAs but not ABs. And then, there was a 154 game season when he played. To really see the player he was, look at his career OPS.
Did Ruth actually throw a knuckleball? I knew he pitched of course, but I didn't know that was part of his arsenal on the mound.
Or did he just kinda know the general mechanics and grip for a knuckleball, enough to talk about it, but not enough to actually use it pitching in an MLB game?
I guess being that his pitching days were in the 1900s, there's probably no way to know for sure if he never threw one. It's not like games back then were all filmed and archived.
He threw a 2-seam fastball.
And he appeared to throw the curve with a grip across the seams.
soooo cool!!!!
I agree
it really is i have to watch it a few times!!!!!!!
100 MPH like Ohtani!!
0:37 Had no idea they knew how to throw a 2 seam back then.
Pitchers back then knew how to throw every type of pitch. The main difference between then and now is that today the average pitch velocity is about 10mph faster, because pitchers are bigger and stronger.
@@gregb6469 An in shape Ruth was 6'2 and weighed 210, so he could throw pretty hard I'm sure. I've never read about him being what they called a fireballer like they always talked about Walter Johnson, so I'm doubting he hit 100, but low to mid 90s I think is quite likely. Average velocity would have been lower then because pitchers were expected to complete games so you only threw your fastest pitches when you really needed them. People today say they threw 80 or 85 mph fastballs, but there's no way as hitters back then would have been good enough to hit at least a double virtually every time against that kind of "heat". Maybe against catchers and shorstops who were considered more important for their defense. Of course it depends on what era you are talking about. In the actual deadball era when they wouldn't change balls and the players would sand it, spit tobacco juice on it etc, then speed wasn't that important, crazy movement was.
Wow - just wow.
Wait a minute The Babe had a Knuckle ball in his arsenal??
I had no idea until I seen this
No he DIDN'T! Every pitcher of every era knows how to grip a knuckleball!
@@keithleverette8235 you were there ? Know for certain he didn’t throw a knuckleball?
So he was throwing a two seamer. I've never seen that curveball grip before though, strange to base it off the 2 seam grip.
The kid holding the bat looks scared to death and the bat he's using is huge. Great footage but what's sad I everybody in this video is most likely dead.
One of those kids are Ted Williams
They really didn't need to show any pitches in slow motion. I'd be shocked if Ruth ever threw in the mid nineties when pitching. Pitchers didn't exactly throw the kind of heat they throw in today's baseball. They relied more on movement over speed. Also, everything seemed like it was weighed down with lead back in those days. The balls weren't manufactured with aerodynamics in mind, and the bats were just smoothed out tree trunks that were extremely top heavy and unbalanced. A thirty home run season would be a legendary feat back then. Pretty cool footage though.
Now I understand why so many people call him the goat.
Plot twist: one of the kids are Yordan Alverez
What couldn't he do in baseball ? Unfortunately I have never seen video of him in the outfield catching a fly, receiving a base hit or throwing the ball to the infield.
Same lol.
A home run is technically a base hit, so yes you have! Lol
@@dustinharrison3491 What I meant was catching the basehit on 2 or 3 bounces in right field from the opposing team
@@sgnmath1234 oh, that makes more since now.
By all accounts he was a very good outfielder in his prime. Not one of the best ever, but well above average. There really wasn't anything he couldn't do.
Cool video, but it would have looked much better in its original 4:3 resolution
Holy fucking cow! Never heard Babe Ruth speak before. I read two of his autobiographies, but never heard him speak on a video! Fuck this is cool. And I'm about to take a nap from drinking. And I came upon this??? The lefty from the Boston team that slammed over 90 percent of his unreal 714 fucking career homeruns as a New York Yankee? This legendary party machine whose many visits to children in hospitals were documented, and others visits not documented? This man wasn't even prejudice. Just a hitting, party machine! Shit, going to listen to this a few times. Thankyou to whomever brought this up on my phone screen. Fucking A! ⚾
hey your welcome, i laughed a few times reading this i felt your joy. babe was the man! thanks bro
@@out_the_crib_customs hey I'm honest. Even when almost passing out. Now I'm haven't passed out, but will drink green tea. Because I'm fully awake listening to Babe Ruth talked. I'm floored. I love this stuff. Going to play my 2007 PlayStation baseball. Hell, the Babe hanging out with kids is more then words can explain. Just that man talking about the basic fundamentals of hitting and fielding, also how to grip certain pitches before the release and throw, well it don't really get any better then this. Thanks again friend
I've read that Babe Ruth hung out with the power hitting catcher Josh Gibson just hitting long balls. Can you imagine if Josh Gibson lived long enough or more to be one of the first great black athletes to play in baseball just like Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Satchel Paige.
@@chadnewfield8866 woah 🤯
@@out_the_crib_customs That is one fact that I was always glad about, perhaps above anything else. I always loved baseball, the stats, the records, the dedicated team work, the stories, some stories and quotes really funny. But it's just always an added bonus, (even though it's really common sense as a decent human being) that such famous people such as Babe Ruth wasn't even prejudice. The good things so called researchers loved to ignore. They focus on the juicy stuff such as his drinking and his women. But this man gave his heart visiting kids in hospitals, even when their wasn't any reporters. Just something he loved to do. And he talked baseball with anybody. He was all about winning. When some teammates couldn't bring their A game to the field because a night on the town with Babe Ruth, Babe said they wouldn't party with him anymore. Also he didn't just hit the ball over the fence, numerous homeruns went long distances. See, there was a reason he hit about 400 more homeruns then any other player (not including Lou Gehrig about 475, and Jimmie Foxx and Mel Ott over 500 homeruns) in baseball. I loved reading his biographies. And this was about ten years later After I got introduced to Reading Rainbow on PBS. Hahaha. That's my last text lol. But just thought I share. Peace
Who edited this down to widescreen?
Why does the babe always have good form ,..even pitching ??
Nice
My Mom saw The Babe play. Imagine
That’s awesome
i beileve there is a video of Pete Rose teaching kids how to hit
And how to place good bets, too!
people say would babe break records if he went against modern day pitching? Well considering babe did it with hot dogs and beer and not bunch of steroids and supplements these guys use these days
❤️babe ruth baseball/ pitching clinic& throwing smoke& bullett ; unhittable lefty slider
The Babe was a very successful pitcher BEFORE he became a great hitter.
Babe Ruth would have been a great manager, too bad the Yankees and Boston Braves used him to draw money instead of making him manager. he would have carried the yankees as a manager for years i think.
That’s interesting I never thought of that 🤔
Ruth was never one for obeying club rules. Nobody would hire him because the argument was "if he can't manage himself, how is he gonna manage 25 other people"?
Managing was something the Babe wouldn't have been good at. The Dodgers hired him to coach first base, mostly for show, and as expected, he was a disaster.
based on what exactly?
@@searchthewind99 if it was for show, how was he a “disaster?”
He deserved the chance to manage.
Wtf this is so bizarre..I had no idea that there was footage of babe ruth talking like this.
There's a good amount of clips on here with him talking. There's a short film also with kids at school on youtube.
.. always nice to hear from the 2nd Class Sports Expert Babe Ruth Haters...
sadly pathetic
...and he could throw the knuckleball! Was there anything in baseball he couldn't do?
I think he could do everything lol
@@out_the_crib_customs I'd say - that's why we're watching him 100 years later.