My grandfather, a knuckleballer on a farm team in the 20s, pitched one inning of an exhibition game against Babe Ruth. He held him to a single. It was grandpa's best story, and his finest hour. It's bright and clear in my mind tonight. Thank you Simon. What wonderful memories you have brought me today.
There have been other TH-camrs that talked like this and stopped apparently the number of people who can’t keep up, won out. Casual Geographics, I’m talking to you
I also noticed how quickly he started to speak on most of his videos now. I realize he has a bunch of other scripts to read and also I could slow down the video but that really isn't the point.
At 21:55 Ruth is shown wearing a NY Giants uniform and with the Giants manager ( and fellow baseball icon John McGraw ) . Ruth never played for the " Jints " but shared the Polo Grounds with them.This was from a charity game.Ruth was so popular because he almost ALWAYS played for free in charity games and especially those that benefited kids.Babe always has time for kids.Especially poor kids.He used to be one of them.
Would you guys review and make a video about Roberto Clemente next? One of the most slept on and forgotten greats of baseball! A humanitarian and much more.
Clemente is definitely not slept on or forgotten lol. Every year one of the biggest events is Roberto Clemente day and the Roberto Clemente Award. But I would love to see a biographics take on him
Best baseball movie ever. When I was a kid we played in a field near my house. If you hit a home run, you had to go get the ball but rather than a big dog, there was a mean ass goat on the other side that would run like crazy at us trying to headbutt us
The photo at 19:28, probably the most famous of Ruth, was that of his final appearance at Yankee Stadium, a tribute ceremony to him. It won a Pulitzer Prize.
The story I heard was that The Babe was at St. Mary's and was heckling his own team's pitcher for pitching poorly. One of the brothers took the ball and said something like "OK, you wanna heckle him? Let's see YOU do better!" And he did.
2:40 - Chapter 1 - From the reformatory to the big leagues 4:55 - Chapter 2 - Pitcher to hitter, boston to new york 8:30 - Chapter 3 - Baseball renaissance 10:55 - Chapter 4 - Problem child , golden child 13:45 - Chapter 5 - The bellyache heard around the world 15:10 - Chapter 6 - The mountain top 17:25 - Chapter 7 - Strikeout 19:40 - Chapter 8 - Legacy
Don't go to where the puck is, go to where the puck will be. I think the most awesome Stat on Gretzky is: even if he had never scored a single goal, he would still be first for most points ever by a player. That's just absurd.
Thank you. This was done in a really classy way. I love Babe Ruth. I learned a lot from this short video on him. The final lines of the video were awesome and so true. He was just a fan and a ball player. Well said, and something that multiple documentaries and sportscasters have missed about the guy. Really, sports stars are just people that are playing boys games. It is the escapism, and the entertainment of the game that he helped bring to the game. Awesome channel! Keep up the great work!
An American Icon. An incredible video. As a life long baseball fan and native Marylander at a young age the Babe has always been a legend too everyone from Baltimore to the Bronx. But this video is a reminder that he was as human as you and me. Thank you for that reminder 🙏🏽
Watching Simon "Brain Blaze Big Brain" Whistler torturously slog through 21 solid minutes of detailed baseball history and statistics is cracking me up. Allegedly.
I'm English and although not necessarily knowing his accomplishments he is talked about in American culture and on TV... I'd say 80% of people who grew up in the 80s/90s knows him
@@dickhardpicard why doesn't every team just field Blacks Hispanics and Asians then if they're so dominant? I say this as a Puerto Rican too. Clemente is closest to my heart as a player and a person, but Babe Ruth is the GOAT of baseball and the measuring stick for every player going forward.
Babe was and still is an icon, his legend having greatly surpassed the era he defined, becoming one of the largest sports figures of not just the 20th century, but of all American history. His cultural impact still resonates today with many baseball players counting him among their influences, though he was been dead before many of them even were born.
@@dickhardpicard Man you are ignorant as heck. He dominate the sport when it was harder to hit you idiot plus he never took steroids like most players have done.
@@davidfrederick1971 Doubt it, otherwise there'd be a mention of it in the pinned comments; that the reply is to a telegram account and not the channel here also indicates fakery.
Lou Gehrig would make for a great biographics video, especially if you dive into the later suggestions that he may not have have Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) at all! Of course, more than likely he probably did have ALS, but it is interesting that there's some evidence that may suggest otherwise (something more along the lines of CTE (chronic traumatic encephelopathy), perhaps). Either way, his story is fairly incredible, and absolutely worth a biographics episode
My cat's name is Gehrig (his previous owner was from a family of baseball fans). I got really excited everytime Simon said his name, but the cat kept on sleeping :)
Simon, In case you didn't know, the saloon that Babe Ruth's father ran was located in roughly center field of Oriole Park at Camden Yards where the Orioles play (that area used to be an industrial area and the warehouse served the B&O Railroad station there. Nowadays, the warehouse houses Orioles team offices, as well as a restaurant and merchandise stores. And MARC commuter trains/Baltimore Light Rail still use Camden Station). And the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys later became Cardinal Gibbons High School; and said school is now closed. But the field is still there .... named Babe Ruth Field at Cardinal Gibbons.
The banning of pitchers applying substances to the baseball was actually changed prior to the 1920 season and that is when the offensive explosion begun. What did change after the death of Ray Chapman was the fact that a new ball should be used all the time. So there would be little or no dirt on it and the batter could see it much better. Thus making it much safer. Batting helmets did not come along until many years later. What I liked now is the batting helmets that have that protected piece that extends from the helmet and protects the jaw .
Yeah, Brother Matthias Boutlier was his primary mentor in baseball, and something of a father figure to him. That being said, the limitations placed on the boys may have had a hand in Ruth becoming such a reckless hedonist later on.
I still remember the 1992 movie starring John Goodman. It wasn't great, but I think Goodman did well with what he had, and I really liked that ending shot.
During the Babe's career they didn't count walk-off home runs like they do today. If a player hit one out with runners on base who scored the winning run, the homer was scored simply as a base hit. There are no accurate records from that era of walk-off homers by the Babe, but baseball historians estimate that he likely hit about 50-60 in his career. If counted, that would take his total up to the 750's-760's or so. Absolutely amazing considering they didn't have all the health and fitness training back in those days. Also, the season was 154 games back then, so he probably would've hit 3-5 more homers per season.
The Babe and I share some coincidental connections. Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run on May 25th; my birthday is May 25th. The Babe's 714th home run was hit off of pitcher Guy Bush; my first name is also Guy. The Babe ended his career with the Boston Braves, who played at Braves Field. Today the site is home to Nickerson Field on the campus of Boston University. My dorm room at Boston University overlooked the former Braves Field. Finally, the last three digits of my ZIP Code are 714 - the number of home runs that The Babe hit. Eternal Memory, Babe Ruth!
Future Video suggestion - Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent figure in Irish history.
It would be really cool to see you cover some classical musicians like J.S Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Or maybe even some chess players, like Bobby Fischer. Some palaeontologists like Mary Anning, Georges Cuvier, Richard Owen, Othniel C. Marsh and Edward D. Cope would also be pretty cool.
My great uncle, Earle Combs played with Ruth on the Yankees. Supposedly, he was the sole person who could keep Ruth from getting too out of control when they went out together. Ruth once said of him "Combs was more than a good ballplayer; he was always a first-class gentleman." I doubt the whistleboy would ever do a biographics on Earle Combs, but I would be willing to pay for it.
@@dtice69 imagine if he actually played against blacks,Hispanics and Asians. His numbers wouldn't been that high. Weak competition and didn't play against the best. He deserves an ✳ more than Barry bonds
Compared to the modern Dominican players, Babe Ruth would have never made the big leagues. Baseball was fun back then, but modern players could destroy those guys from hither and yon.
It should be remembered that the Red Sox didn't just sell Babe to the Yankees; they traded them half their starting lineup from that last WS team. That's what really drove the team into a hole.
In HS we tried playing with an ball like they used in the pre20s era. Once it gets hit it is no longer a round. So it would take football hops off the infield. It absorbed contact. The pitcher would have to reform it into a ball before throwing it. Super fun to play cause it was unpredictable with lots of running after crazy balls. But watching it would have been a slog.
I remember as a kid, had a teacher that was a huge red sox fan and always talked about the curse of the great bambino. Heard all the theories on how it was some special number thing etc when they finally won again in the 2000s And of course the sandlot movie etc
In 7th grade i took a sports history class, from the research we had to do on a project about the Sultan the pointing to the crowd really happened, but he was actually pointing as a wave to a woman in that part of the stands that he was flirting with before the game, although even that was contested by experts on Babe at the time we did the project. It was a weird class because it was full of the people that would bully me, but they were actually kind in that class.
In 50-100 years they’ll be making this video about Shohei Ohtani….why though? Because he pitched 300 innings in the last two season and hit 80 HR over that time too. Not even Ruth has done that.
Did you say Baltimore Oracles? That woud be an interesting team name, but better for one in, say, Delphi Indiana. The team in Baltimore at the time was - and still is - called the Baltimore Orioles, as in the name of an actual type of bird native to eastern North America.
He along with the Charleston dance and Charles Lindberg are the very definition of the roaring 20's. No other person in sports definaed an entire decade. I consider him then it's Mickey Mantle followed by Wilt Chamberlin and then Tom Brady. But the Bade is in a league all his own
Have a babe Ruth signed baseball from my dad who had it as long as I can remember. In a simple case.. I’m not big into team sports at all but new his name well as a kid
@@littleblackduck3134 yeah, I figure but haven’t checked. Since he died when I was 17, I’d struggle to get rid of it even when I broke my back and lived off life savings for years. It’ll come one day though most likely. There wasn’t much left to keep from him.
Great video as always! But two interesting tidbits for ya…1.) Ruth hit more homers in a season than ANY team in the league multiple times and 2.) shortly before his death I believe he was the first American to receive a voice box, albeit a rather primitive one
T day one of my charges had a Jordan jacket on. I told him I saw Jordan against the Newts in Jersey in 1992. You can argue that 2- men are the greatest basketball player of all time. Babe is the greatest baseball player. There is ZERO question
I remember being a boy in Baltimore. We played a lot of Baseball. We would take a break. I remember us boys telling stories about Babe Ruth. We did not even know Ruth was from Baltimore.
My favorite Babe Ruth stat is he once pitched 29 and 1/3rd consecutive scoreless innings in the World Series!.. lol.. That was an MLB record until long after his death.. PS: I was gonna crucify you for saying Baltimore Oracles, but you said Orioles the second time, so I’ll chalk it up to an honest mistake..
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can you do one on Marcus Garvey...?!
@@donrebel1340 iiio0ii88
Please do Booker T. Washington next
My grandfather, a knuckleballer on a farm team in the 20s, pitched one inning of an exhibition game against Babe Ruth. He held him to a single. It was grandpa's best story, and his finest hour. It's bright and clear in my mind tonight. Thank you Simon. What wonderful memories you have brought me today.
Great story mate, made me smile reading it.
Make sure you text Simon on his reply, claim your prize 😉
That's an awesome story!
Great story... please don't let the scam bot trick you
Cool story, but I can't help but get mad at folks in the past (on account they were very racist, homophobic, conservative etc.)
What does "held to a single" mean?
He not only defines baseball, he defines an entire era in US History. Pretty impressive to think about dominant he was in the culture.
This video was well done.
He also inspired a movement of ppl like Coach K 🙏 anointed as a human ambassador thru the vehicle of baseball
@KMVS8686 babe Ruth was acquittal of murder charges just joking
This coulda been an hour, but dude talks quick and put out all the info so eloquently…what an icon.
There have been other TH-camrs that talked like this and stopped apparently the number of people who can’t keep up, won out. Casual Geographics, I’m talking to you
I also noticed how quickly he started to speak on most of his videos now. I realize he has a bunch of other scripts to read and also I could slow down the video but that really isn't the point.
At 21:55 Ruth is shown wearing a NY Giants uniform and with the Giants manager ( and fellow baseball icon John McGraw ) . Ruth never played for the " Jints " but shared the Polo Grounds with them.This was from a charity game.Ruth was so popular because he almost ALWAYS played for free in charity games and especially those that benefited kids.Babe always has time for kids.Especially poor kids.He used to be one of them.
the even had a Babe Ruth day at yankee stadium
Would you guys review and make a video about Roberto Clemente next? One of the most slept on and forgotten greats of baseball! A humanitarian and much more.
I grew up idolizing Clemente and today one of only two baseball cards I own is one of his.
Yes!! Roberto Clemente needs his own video!
Clemente is definitely not slept on or forgotten lol. Every year one of the biggest events is Roberto Clemente day and the Roberto Clemente Award. But I would love to see a biographics take on him
What do You mean forgotten?
Clemente has never been forgotten
“Heroes get remembered but legends never die.”
-- Babe Ruth, The Sandlot(1993)
Love that movie
My own quote: *While some people are entering the legend, other are making history*
Best baseball movie ever. When I was a kid we played in a field near my house. If you hit a home run, you had to go get the ball but rather than a big dog, there was a mean ass goat on the other side that would run like crazy at us trying to headbutt us
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way”
Babe Ruth
That's a baseball terminology but can also be applied as a life lesson.
His role in The Sandlot although fictional made me become a big baseball fan. I was always curious about his story. Thanks Biographics👍
"Oh! I thought you said, 'The great Bambi.' "
Remember, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered.... but legends NEVER die. Follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong.
The photo at 19:28, probably the most famous of Ruth, was that of his final appearance at Yankee Stadium, a tribute ceremony to him. It won a Pulitzer Prize.
"Babe" Ruth will always be the greatest baseball player of all time!!!! 😊
Loved the respectful way you presented the Babe! Thank you from a life long baseball fan!
The story I heard was that The Babe was at St. Mary's and was heckling his own team's pitcher for pitching poorly. One of the brothers took the ball and said something like "OK, you wanna heckle him? Let's see YOU do better!"
And he did.
He signed with the Baltimore Orioles, not Oracles lol. Maybe I just misunderstood his "English" English
You didn’t. I even checked, just to make sure they weren’t called the Oracles for a year or two, back in the day, lol. They weren’t.
Agreed. It absolutely sounded like Oracles the first time….I figured it was a minor league predecessor. But the second time it was clearly Orioles.
2:40 - Chapter 1 - From the reformatory to the big leagues
4:55 - Chapter 2 - Pitcher to hitter, boston to new york
8:30 - Chapter 3 - Baseball renaissance
10:55 - Chapter 4 - Problem child , golden child
13:45 - Chapter 5 - The bellyache heard around the world
15:10 - Chapter 6 - The mountain top
17:25 - Chapter 7 - Strikeout
19:40 - Chapter 8 - Legacy
I'm a Bostonian and you can't even imagine what it was like to be a Red Sox fan in 2004. I can't even describe it.
Like being an Eagles fan in 2018.
Same cubs fan in 2016 knowing people have lived and died without seeing them win
The movie Fever Pitch was made around that season. It's a cute movie.
I think there definitely needs to be a biographics done about the great one, Wayne Gretzky!! :)
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Absolutely agree! I really like the way Simon lays out the life of his subject - good, bad, ugly and humourous. A Gretzky bio would be awesome!
Don't go to where the puck is, go to where the puck will be. I think the most awesome Stat on Gretzky is: even if he had never scored a single goal, he would still be first for most points ever by a player. That's just absurd.
Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die.
Follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong.
Thank you. This was done in a really classy way. I love Babe Ruth. I learned a lot from this short video on him. The final lines of the video were awesome and so true. He was just a fan and a ball player. Well said, and something that multiple documentaries and sportscasters have missed about the guy. Really, sports stars are just people that are playing boys games. It is the escapism, and the entertainment of the game that he helped bring to the game. Awesome channel! Keep up the great work!
An American Icon. An incredible video. As a life long baseball fan and native Marylander at a young age the Babe has always been a legend too everyone from Baltimore to the Bronx. But this video is a reminder that he was as human as you and me. Thank you for that reminder 🙏🏽
Brings back memories of what baseball was like for me back in the 60's.
Watching Simon "Brain Blaze Big Brain" Whistler torturously slog through 21 solid minutes of detailed baseball history and statistics is cracking me up. Allegedly.
He's a Brit, cut him some slack
It was great, he started the segment saying, “everyone knows who babe Ruth is”. And I would bet a thousand dollars he has never heard of him😊
Haha yeah I know. He got through it like a pro though
I'm English and although not necessarily knowing his accomplishments he is talked about in American culture and on TV... I'd say 80% of people who grew up in the 80s/90s knows him
He should take on a Hulk Hogan Biographics. We all know how much he likes that sport entertainment.
It's difficult to overstate how famous Babe Ruth was during his time, or how good he was at baseball.
He played against weak competition. No blacks,Hispanics or Asians
@@dickhardpicard LOL. Sure.
@@dickhardpicard why doesn't every team just field Blacks Hispanics and Asians then if they're so dominant? I say this as a Puerto Rican too. Clemente is closest to my heart as a player and a person, but Babe Ruth is the GOAT of baseball and the measuring stick for every player going forward.
@@matrinezkevin11492 well most the top players are blacks who speak Spanish and Asian.
@@dickhardpicard most?
Babe was and still is an icon, his legend having greatly surpassed the era he defined, becoming one of the largest sports figures of not just the 20th century, but of all American history. His cultural impact still resonates today with many baseball players counting him among their influences, though he was been dead before many of them even were born.
What cultural influence? He ain't play against no black, Hispanic or Asian players. He played in an Era of weak competition
@@dickhardpicard Man you are ignorant as heck. He dominate the sport when it was harder to hit you idiot plus he never took steroids like most players have done.
@@dickhardpicard The dude absolutely had an influence on the culture of the time. And his legend still stands.
All while drinking 12 beers, 15 hot dogs and absolutely no steroids!!!
Babe Ruth: I run the game of baseball
Jackie Robinson: *Hold my bat*
Dang right!
Actor John Goodman did an OUTSTANDING performance in the 1992 film "The Babe". No one else could have done it better
is that message below real?
@@davidfrederick1971 , of course it is
@@davidfrederick1971 Doubt it, otherwise there'd be a mention of it in the pinned comments; that the reply is to a telegram account and not the channel here also indicates fakery.
@@davidfrederick1971 No a scam. Report it.
I find listening to this British guy talking about baseball & Ruth really adds entertainment to the information!
Thank you Simon and team!
Beautiful. Thank you for making this. Learned so much about a legend and also felt moved by his impact.
Bill Russell: A pioneer of the game and civil rights
Kobe Bryant: The Black Mamba
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson: When The League Was Ours
Lou Gehrig would make for a great biographics video, especially if you dive into the later suggestions that he may not have have Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) at all! Of course, more than likely he probably did have ALS, but it is interesting that there's some evidence that may suggest otherwise (something more along the lines of CTE (chronic traumatic encephelopathy), perhaps).
Either way, his story is fairly incredible, and absolutely worth a biographics episode
My cat's name is Gehrig (his previous owner was from a family of baseball fans). I got really excited everytime Simon said his name, but the cat kept on sleeping :)
21:00 that would have to be during his radiation treatment. Excellent conclusion and the audio guy knocked it out of the park.
Simon,
In case you didn't know, the saloon that Babe Ruth's father ran was located in roughly center field of Oriole Park at Camden Yards where the Orioles play (that area used to be an industrial area and the warehouse served the B&O Railroad station there. Nowadays, the warehouse houses Orioles team offices, as well as a restaurant and merchandise stores. And MARC commuter trains/Baltimore Light Rail still use Camden Station).
And the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys later became Cardinal Gibbons High School; and said school is now closed. But the field is still there .... named Babe Ruth Field at Cardinal Gibbons.
Yup. St. Agnes Hospital bought the entire land but has kept the school (possibly for a future school for medicine) and field
The banning of pitchers applying substances to the baseball was actually changed prior to the 1920 season and that is when the offensive explosion begun.
What did change after the death of Ray Chapman was the fact that a new ball should be used all the time. So there would be little or no dirt on it and the batter could see it much better. Thus making it much safer.
Batting helmets did not come along until many years later.
What I liked now is the batting helmets that have that protected piece that extends from the helmet and protects the jaw .
YOOOOOO, been waiting for this one. Biographics you awesome
Thanks Simmon I really appreciated how you wrapped this episode with that closing comment
"Even my mom, a grown-up girl, knew who the Babe was." -Scotty Smalls
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen on any of the Simon Whistler Network.
Being sent to that reform school was the best thing that I get happened to Babe.
However he never truly got himself under control.
Well Until he married Claire
Yeah, Brother Matthias Boutlier was his primary mentor in baseball, and something of a father figure to him. That being said, the limitations placed on the boys may have had a hand in Ruth becoming such a reckless hedonist later on.
"Who is this Baby Ruth, and what does she do?"
- George Bernard Shaw
Ah yes the Baltimore Oracles! 😂
I still remember the 1992 movie starring John Goodman. It wasn't great, but I think Goodman did well with what he had, and I really liked that ending shot.
Georgia Tann and her "adoption agency" would make an interesting video. She was a truly evil woman
Biggest mistake in sports history: The Red Sox giving up Ruth to the Yankees. 🤣🤣
We still regret it to this day.
One record that will never be broken. Most pitching Wins by a player with at least 714 home runs.
During the Babe's career they didn't count walk-off home runs like they do today. If a player hit one out with runners on base who scored the winning run, the homer was scored simply as a base hit. There are no accurate records from that era of walk-off homers by the Babe, but baseball historians estimate that he likely hit about 50-60 in his career. If counted, that would take his total up to the 750's-760's or so. Absolutely amazing considering they didn't have all the health and fitness training back in those days. Also, the season was 154 games back then, so he probably would've hit 3-5 more homers per season.
The Babe and I share some coincidental connections.
Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run on May 25th; my birthday is May 25th.
The Babe's 714th home run was hit off of pitcher Guy Bush; my first name is also Guy.
The Babe ended his career with the Boston Braves, who played at Braves Field. Today the site is home to Nickerson Field on the campus of Boston University. My dorm room at Boston University overlooked the former Braves Field.
Finally, the last three digits of my ZIP Code are 714 - the number of home runs that The Babe hit.
Eternal Memory, Babe Ruth!
@4:03 I didn't know that there was a Baltimore Oracles 😁
Even when I think that the bio is not relevant to me, I remember that I have never once not been blown away and interested in the video.
Babe Ruth was sold for $125,000 so Frazee could make "No No Nanette".
Future Video suggestion -
Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent figure in Irish history.
Good suggestion, I'd rather the big fella first though meself 😉
It would be really cool to see you cover some classical musicians like J.S Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Or maybe even some chess players, like Bobby Fischer. Some palaeontologists like Mary Anning, Georges Cuvier, Richard Owen, Othniel C. Marsh and Edward D. Cope would also be pretty cool.
He already has a few but idk which ones he's done, ik Wagner he's done and it was reaaally cool 😎
Yes particularly musicians & composers... I am a music aficionado...
@Bernardo Lacerda I vote for Mary Anning!!! Thanks Bernardo!
Love the video Simon! Just wanted to shout out an idea for Jackie Robinson. Keep up the great work
He still holds the record for highest slugging percentage
We'll be talking about The Babe and comparing current players to him forever. That says a lot about the man and the myth.
My great uncle, Earle Combs played with Ruth on the Yankees. Supposedly, he was the sole person who could keep Ruth from getting too out of control when they went out together. Ruth once said of him "Combs was more than a good ballplayer; he was always a first-class gentleman." I doubt the whistleboy would ever do a biographics on Earle Combs, but I would be willing to pay for it.
the Kentucky Colonel. Nice player in his own right.
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i'm a cardinal fan myself but there are a few players who are legend no matter what team you like and babe ruth is at the top of that list
I went to the Birthplace/Museum in Baltimore this summer. Wonderful exhibits and memorabilia!
Well done video. Babe Ruth is an all time great baseball player.
No he is not. He never played against blacks, Hispanics or asians
@@dickhardpicard Still the GOAT regardless of who he played against.
@@dickhardpicard ok we get it.
@@dickhardpicard Imagine thinking that's an argument lmfao.
@@dtice69 imagine if he actually played against blacks,Hispanics and Asians. His numbers wouldn't been that high. Weak competition and didn't play against the best. He deserves an ✳ more than Barry bonds
Many do not realize that before 1925/6, he was a chiseled 6'2", 210 beast.
Compared to the modern Dominican players, Babe Ruth would have never made the big leagues. Baseball was fun back then, but modern players could destroy those guys from hither and yon.
My late father said he was a young player in he "Babe Ruth League"
Juanita Jennings is Babes mistress aka Dorothy Pirones Mom. Dorothy was Juanita’s second child, abandoning the first in SF
Lol, nah. Documented. Why you mad about it though?
It should be remembered that the Red Sox didn't just sell Babe to the Yankees; they traded them half their starting lineup from that last WS team. That's what really drove the team into a hole.
In HS we tried playing with an ball like they used in the pre20s era. Once it gets hit it is no longer a round. So it would take football hops off the infield. It absorbed contact. The pitcher would have to reform it into a ball before throwing it. Super fun to play cause it was unpredictable with lots of running after crazy balls. But watching it would have been a slog.
This is your best sports episode
an iconic figure in American popular culture ..
I remember as a kid, had a teacher that was a huge red sox fan and always talked about the curse of the great bambino.
Heard all the theories on how it was some special number thing etc when they finally won again in the 2000s
And of course the sandlot movie etc
Perfectly timed release, all things considered.
You knocked this out the park!
Good video, Simon.
Well done.
Babe Ruth was the Bradman of Baseball
Bradman was the Dave Brown of Cricket.They,of course,played next to each other at the SCG.
I wonder if the explanations of pitchers/hitters was actually for Simon? He's not a fan of sports. Yet, as always, he delivers a great video.
I appreciate the content learnt a lot of things historically from your platform 💪👈
Babe Ruth was the Boy in "Boysterous."
In 7th grade i took a sports history class, from the research we had to do on a project about the Sultan the pointing to the crowd really happened, but he was actually pointing as a wave to a woman in that part of the stands that he was flirting with before the game, although even that was contested by experts on Babe at the time we did the project. It was a weird class because it was full of the people that would bully me, but they were actually kind in that class.
In 50-100 years they’ll be making this video about Shohei Ohtani….why though? Because he pitched 300 innings in the last two season and hit 80 HR over that time too. Not even Ruth has done that.
Well done 👏
New glasses. Rockin that Wayfarer style.
1:43 what about Pele, Ronaldo, Messi or Maradona?
Did you say Baltimore Oracles? That woud be an interesting team name, but better for one in, say, Delphi Indiana. The team in Baltimore at the time was - and still is - called the Baltimore Orioles, as in the name of an actual type of bird native to eastern North America.
I was looking specifically to see if someone pointed that out.
4:05 - The Baltimore Oracles????!!!!
He along with the Charleston dance and Charles Lindberg are the very definition of the roaring 20's. No other person in sports definaed an entire decade. I consider him then it's Mickey Mantle followed by Wilt Chamberlin and then Tom Brady. But the Bade is in a league all his own
The 90’s were completely owned by the only Goat, black Jesus.
I love cricket. This is a brilliant episode about baseball. I love that game more because of it.
I can’t wait for the “Tom Brady: Greatest of All Time” two part epic.
I love the picture of the huge banner that says Babe Ruth did it with hot dogs and beer. A dejected Barry Bonds in the foreground
Have a babe Ruth signed baseball from my dad who had it as long as I can remember. In a simple case.. I’m not big into team sports at all but new his name well as a kid
I don't know your financial status, but if this is true, it has increased
@@littleblackduck3134 yeah, I figure but haven’t checked. Since he died when I was 17, I’d struggle to get rid of it even when I broke my back and lived off life savings for years. It’ll come one day though most likely. There wasn’t much left to keep from him.
Simon, talk about Jack Johnson and the Negro Leagues. I believe the Yankees faced them and lost around that time.
Nobody even the ball players of today could touch the Babe .340 lifetime batting average 714 homeruns won 99 games as a pitcher👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Never watched baseball a day in life but babe is a very interesting person!
Me as a child: This team is really good. They might win the World Series!
My grandfather: They're not the 27 Yankees...
the rocket richard of baseball;
Loved this episode. Huge baseball fan❤️
Rest in peace to those that passed away.
Great video as always! But two interesting tidbits for ya…1.) Ruth hit more homers in a season than ANY team in the league multiple times and 2.) shortly before his death I believe he was the first American to receive a voice box, albeit a rather primitive one
My grandfather is Mike Boddicker and played for some of those teams !!😃
T day one of my charges had a Jordan jacket on. I told him I saw Jordan against the Newts in Jersey in 1992. You can argue that 2- men are the greatest basketball player of all time. Babe is the greatest baseball player. There is ZERO question
I remember being a boy in Baltimore. We played a lot of Baseball. We would take a break. I remember us boys telling stories about Babe Ruth. We did not even know Ruth was from Baltimore.
My favorite Babe Ruth stat is he once pitched 29 and 1/3rd consecutive scoreless innings in the World Series!.. lol.. That was an MLB record until long after his death..
PS: I was gonna crucify you for saying Baltimore Oracles, but you said Orioles the second time, so I’ll chalk it up to an honest mistake..
Baltimore Oracles. It is sooooooo cool listing to a Brit teach Americans about baseball.