Hey the homerun Babe Ruth hit that homerun was a bat that was A four-piece bat used by Babe Ruth is banned by American League president Ban Johnson because of the glue used on it. They took 4 pieces of wood and glued it together and that was the bat Babe Ruth used for that home run. You have to make a bat like that one. Babe Ruth only was able to use that bat for 14 games. So you have to recreate that bat if you really want to test it out.
It is so interesting to think that the makers of that ball had no idea that 100 years later their ball would be launched out of a pitching machine on video camera and seen by thousands of people on the “internet”.
I always wondered how the weather was when he did this. Tbh if the wind was just blowing enough with a exit velo of at least 105+. I could see it carrying over 500Feet now the whole extra 75 feet might be the stretch. But anything over 500 is WILD for that era.
I was at a spring training game. Massive wind. I’m standing by the fence in left. Ball is hit. Coming to me…then it hits the freaking jet stream and screams over the stands, the parking lot and the buss parked at the far edge. Wind is a heck of an influence.
I seem to remembering hearing that the way they measured homers might have been a bit different back then, and they might well have been measuring it from wherever the ball stopped rolling. So maybe a mixture of wind and then wonky measuring approaches by the MLB at the team contributed to the wild distance.
6:166:54 2 key points 1. The deadball era was until the end of the 1919 season. Those baseballs weren’t wounded tight and made with a different core. This explains why they would be lopsided and mashed on one side with very little home run rates. The balls used in the 20s were part of the live ball era. They were wound tighter, and sprung back to shape. These baseballs use the same cork rubber center like the balls used today. 2. Both American League and National League balls had multicolor stitching in the 1920s. This particular baseball is one from the 1952-1969 while Warren Giles was the President of the National League. In the 1920s it would’ve been John Heydler who was the president of the National League at the time.
Well it was a multitude of factors really. - Baseballs during the pre-20s known as the “dead-ball era” use the rubber core until the 1910 World Series when it was introduced to its cork center core - were usually not kept by fans as they were recycled back into the games. The repeated use would make the inside wool unravel thus loosening the integrity of the ball. Therefore it is why the balls were mashed and lopsided. - during the deadball era, pitchers were allowed to scuff, spit, emery board, and make alterations to the ball during games. Thus resulting in uncontrollable flight patterns of the ball and difficulty seeing/hitting it. - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was killed from a pitched ball he couldn’t see, forcing the league to make rule changes on the ball. for example, the changing/removing of a baseball once it’s scuffed with a brand new white clean ball and outlawing the spit scuff etc.balls. - while the rule changes were occurring during the 20s, Albert Spalding, owner of Spalding (where the balls where made) made an alteration in the construction of the ball. - Started using Australian wool which was a lot stronger and wounded tighter. Thus giving the ball it’s “ rabbit hop “ appearance and shifting the balance from pitching to hitting overnight and igniting the “ live ball era “ In conclusion, yes, it was changed because of the rules ,incidents, Introduction of new materials, and of course The Babe; is how The live ball era was born. There were several minor changes done along the way from the 40s to the 70s but that is a different story bleacherreport.com/articles/1676509-the-evolution-of-the-baseball-from-the-dead-ball-era-through-today
@@Dylan_Lover95 According to the sources I have seen, the live ball was introduced in 1914. Maybe there were further changes in the ball later, but what historians hold (maybe I'm one of them) is that it just took a few years before the live ball changed the game. Before the 1920s, baseball teams played little ball through the whole lineup and that did not change because of the introduction of the live ball.
Babe was also built for power you could see it in his heavier frame. He was used to swinging a bat like that pretty much every time he played so you can imagine how strong he was day in day out swinging that log of a bat.
@@rupert_1491 Yeah, Babe Ruth was the beneficiary of being in the league when a big expansion happened, with 8 teams joining the league at once. So when you look at his stats, and see him go from .322 average and 29 homers to .376 and 54 homers the next year, that was when the league expanded and had an influx of lesser talent filling rosters which created easier hitting.
I still don’t believe it. Lots of people that played back then were normal people. They weren’t as healthy and for a normal person to hit a ball that far is impossible. As you saw these are guys that hit the gym every day and didn’t even come close
@@Brobro449 bro you’re actually stupid if you think Eric is being serious lmao I think he was very much humbled when he struggled in the minors and now just plays it up post career as a joke for content.
Ruth was 6'2" and in 1921 he was in very good shape. He wasn't always in good shape, but in the early 20s he was and then again briefly in 27 and 28. Imagine if he were in good shape his whole career.
@Sam_on_youtube You’re right, People always think of him as fat and un athletic but he was rather athletic and well built in his earlier years, especially with the red Sox and his first couple of years with the Yankees. He was also a good base runner with decent speed.
Agreed. People tend to forget that Babe was LITERALLY larger than life back then even. He was 6'2" and listed at 215 though probably heavier. Another factor is that he not only swung the bat they used, but he used bats up to 54oz. IN GAME! Hardly fair to have the guys who are used to VERY light and short bats suddenly step up and swing basically a tree log. I mean they did do well, but Babe built his power with YEARS swinging those. I'd wager if given time to build the required swing they could hit one 500 feet with it no question.
@@redlightrunner930 I played in the Twins Organization for four years. Never made it to the Majors unfortunately, at 43-46 years old I played on my sons Division II College Summer baseball league and and averaged .503 those 4 years. I think I know what I'm talking about and you playing "competitive" ball with a bunch of out of shape 40 year olds is not impressive. I hit against Nolan Ryan is Spring Training and watched George Brett hit from the opposite dugout. Had Mark McGwire almost drive a ball down my throat while playing 3rd base. They made me look pathetic, I would make you look pathetic. Stay in your lane.
@@redlightrunner930 he was 6'2" and his playing weight was only 215, don't believe every caricature you see of someone. I'm fact towards the end of his career he also got his smoking and eating under control with the help of his wife
I feel like the 575 number is from where the ball ended up and not necessarily where it first touched the ground. And then through the years it was misinterpreted.
Challenge for the crew. Nolan Ryan is reported to have thrown the fasted baseball of all time at 108.1 mph (when adjusted to modern measuring standards) try and hit a nuke off that
He didn't throw 108. They're basing that off of an old radar gun that was probably calculating incorrectly to begin with. He might have hit 104-105, but definitely not 108. Someone else would have come close to it by now.
The problem with your "theory" is that the modern game of baseball is missing two factors. 1 the size and weight of Babe Ruth's bat was much different than todays bats. Why you may ask?? Pitching has changed. Bats have dropped size and weight because pitchers now throw faster than they used to and the reaction is faster with smaller bats. Also George's bats were made of ash. What happens when you swing a larger mass object with more momentum than a smaller object with less momentum. 2 Pitchers used to throw the ball much slower. Pitchers now throw 15 to 20 mph faster than they did during George's era. And if you think that would decrease distance well during a collision the mass of the larger object determines how much energy is transferred not the smaller one.
@4:48, Not if you're looking at average fastball peak velocity. Pitchers seldom threw fastballs back then, but when they did, the available footage and speeding motorcycle test data suggest the average pitcher was throwing in the low-90's. Back then, pitchers commonly put junk on the ball and pitched with reduced velocity with pitches that are now outlawed.
@@blazedbeye3412 The speeding-motorcycle test of the day showed him throwing in the 90's, although he probably never actually threw that hard. A Bridgeport, CT. munitions lab showed Walter Johnson throwing in the low-90's with a sidearm motion. There were players who played against Bob Feller and Walter Johnson who described Feller as slightly faster. Feller was clocked at over 100 mph at peak velocity.
The real number is 550 and some change, the plaque awarded to him gave it an extra 25 for some reason. But in the local paper at the time they state it was a little over 550 ft.
What about all his other 550+ dingers. This is just the summer of 1921, there were dozens of others 575 in Detroit 7/18/1921 off Cole 8th inning 1 MOB 560 Cleveland 7/31/1921 off Caldwell 6th inn 2 MOB 550 Wrigley 8/17/1921 off Wieneke 6th inn 1 MOB
I still have my great grandpa's bat from 1920. You can tell the difference from a regular -3 bat. I used to hit rubber baseballs with it and let me tell you something.... lmao. It launched them edit: I have an orange stealth too. Bat is jesus
@houstontrimble2928 no he didn't. It is not possible for a human to hit a baseball that far with a wooden bat. He would need a hurricane force wind behind it.
Duhhhhh. Those old school 500 foot homers are typically incorrect and bad guesses or the ball being measured after it bounced and rolled. Very few 500 foot homers of the past were correct. Some were of course but not many. Mark McGwire hit one that was allegedly 540 but when they accurately measured it was 480 same thing with Jose canseco and one that went 538 or 540 it was actually 470- 480. Andres galarraga hit one that was supposed to be around 5:30 and again it was actually in the 470 ballpark. Now that we have statcast and much better science, we are getting much more accurate distances than ever before. They aren't perfect but they're much closer than the guesstimations of the past. And if you think that they were accurately measuring the distance of homeruns back in babe Ruth era you are high. It's sad that people are so desperate to believe in Legends that they think that all the science and data we have today is less reliable than guesses and unreliable measurements from over 100 years ago. We know how hard a ball would have to come off the bat to reach over 550 ft. And it's more than 30 miles an hour faster than even the most hard-hit balls today. I'm sorry babe Ruth may have been a stud but he's not hitting the ball harder than Giancarlo and those guys. And if he is, it's definitely not 25 to 30 mph more. Just accept the fact that certain that there were incorrect distances listed back then and now that we know more about trajectory and exit velocity and all that shit, we realize the majority of the monster home runs were either exaggerated or completely fake
Now, you just need a guy around 27yrs old, 6'2", same weight as Babe, to study film and practice swinging like Babe, swinging that large, long 50oz bat for like a year or so, eat the same meal beforehand, do the same daily routine as Babe would've done before the game, THEN, do the tests at the same ballpark he hit 575 at, same wind conditions, same day of the year. It still seems like the 575ft is exaggerated/inaccurate.
Ahhh 1920. I remember the year. I was graduating my senior year of college in 1920. My best friend, Joe Definitelyreal Garland hit a baseball a "definitely verified trust me bro" 744 feet! If it didn't bounce off the 500 foot building that was 100 feet behind the stadium the ball would've travelled 1,233 feet, according to Doctor IstudyScience Jabar. I still remember that day so well. He was "just built different."
Careful...... there are people who will believe that. Nevermind that there wasn't a Coors field. Nevermind there wasn't science (stat cast) to verify anything. Nevermind that his team was New York where they believe everything is bigger, better, longer, etc. than anywhere else.
Confirmed… BABE must have been BUILT DIFFERENT 😅 grateful for the opportunity to compete against history! Awesome content fellas 👊 thankful to have been apart of it!
The boys of those eras were also doing manual labor as they came of age working in factories, farms, coal mines etc. Swinging a 50+oz bat was the natural evolution for Babe, while players of today have evolved for reaction speed swinging 33 oz refined toothpicks to catch up to 100mph. Mantle worked in the coal mines while boys of today might spend an hour in the gym. Big difference.
Or there was a lot of embellishing by the press back in the day. Maybe they measured after it stopped rolling. But yeah those numbers back then were b.s.
we were told for years it was the "Mick" who hit one 565. He also had a physicist who said it shot off the facade at Detroit would have gone 610 had it not been impeded.
@@Ease1x It might be true, but that's still a bomb. It's not like people telling ghost stories or other complete BS. These shots really happened, but they had no way to verify the real distance so the estimations could have been off by quite a bit without them intentionally exaggerating it.
He never hit a homer anywhere near that. Don't you find it odd that all the longest homers are before the stat cast era & before there was a Coors field? Since stat cast (2015) there have been TWO 500+ foot homers. Neither more than 505 feet. But we are supposed to believe Mantle hit one 565 feet? Right.
would love to see a video of how much wind plays a factor in fly balls in stadiums blowing in and out and maybe even use wind to see how far of a homerun you could get as well.
He was great, but not the best ever. He faced guys throwing in the 70's. He never faced the velocity or movement that post 1960's players have faced. He never faced anyone like Satchel Page, Bob Gibson, Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, and the like
The only way to hit a baseball 575 ft is a perfect 35° launch angle, 120-125 mph off of the bat with around a 30-50 mph wind behind it. Any home run considered to be one of the longest on history has always had a big wind behind it. Reggie Jackson hit a home run in the 1971 All Star game with a 24 mph wind behind it that went 539 ft. This is approximate, of course, but it went no less than 530ft and had a substantial gust of wind behind it
He hit 500 footers many times per month, the fields were 490-500 foot deep. He was hitting the out of the park in these stadiums, many of them they had no idea where it landed but they knew how far it went at the minimum. If you hit it five rows deep at the polo grounds center field you can assume it's 530+ feet
@@kschell286 They still use wooden bats, and smaller, lighter bats no less. Less weight means less momentum, less size means less leverage. The average MLB bat is between 34 and 36oz today; Ruth is said to have used bats as heavy as ~50oz (1.4kg), which is almost 30% heavier. Likewise these bats were also several inches longer. Combined, they would have imparted more force on the ball than a modern bat will. In other words, physics does not lie.
there is not one single human being on this planet..today or in the past, who could swing a 50 oz bat at 100mph like they do today. Yes they had more mass but also slower batting speed. If you increase the mass but reduce the speed you may end hitting at a shorter distance but of course it all depends on exit velocity or launch angle. As they said in the video you would need a ball hit at 135 mph at a 28 degree launch angle to hit 575 feet.. If you want to have a chance to hit a ball at 135 mph you would need a minimum of around 100 mph bat speed to generate enough force. No chance with a 50 oz bat to do so. Im not even counting the fact that the average fast ball in that era was around 80-85 mph. which is also a factor for hitting long homeruns @@xoeleox2079
Honestly Ohtania should help you guys hit farthest home run record because that man has some power. Today he launched a 415 ft home run that had a 116 mph exit velo
Add wind +17mph (documented average on record day), change bat to 50oz (was known to use one that heavy), have custom balls made to replicate era balls, and maybe increase pitch speed to account for a possible hot pitcher.
Also, have some mathematical/computer geniuses analyze old footage for specs of Babe, bat, and swing speed. Analyze old pics for ball location, distance to home plate, possible upper deck roof bounce, etc.
Consider that he also used this equipment his entire life , his body and swing where more fluent with it. Now let’s say wind helps carry the ball. I think possible.
The Polo Grounds IV when Ruth played was 450 to left center, 449 to right center and 483 straight center. Down the lines were short but people hit homers to the power alleys there.
and there have only been 3 people to hit a hr dead center. none of which were babe ruth. in fact, none of them played before the 50's. we'll out of the dead ball era
And 258 to the foul pole... "Right center" was pretty far from right field on their dimensions chart. Lots of fly balls to right today would end up in the seats on those dimensions, the question is, how many would be lost to dead center.
Such a minimal factor. Realistically it was probably a high wind day going out the way the ball went. 575 def didn’t happen, maybe 500 but I even doubt that
@@Niickooo Well we've seen Mark McGwire hit the baseball 540. And a lesser of a power hitter Andres Galaraga hit the ball 535 feet. 575 is recognized by MLB, I'm betting they did a lot of research into this for it to officially be in the record books. Babe Ruth wasn't a normal Human being, he was a giant for his era, just pure bulk (fat and muscle and tall) and swung a giant bat that, by the looks of his footage, he could swing with ease with a very high bat velo (much higher and easier than Momentum guys). He was also probably on drugs like cocaine and shit cuz he was known for being an animal too. Some drugs give almost superhuman strength. I think it's possible.
Babe also always swung heavy bats. These dudes just picked up the heavy bat that day. Dude had a huge midsection and while not the ideal "athletic" body, he had the build of a workers body. He also had a huge stride towards the pitcher.
You wonder if his size and strength combined to give him more torque on the swing. If the pitchers were throwing more 85 mph fastballs it would make sense that guys could be swinging really huge bats as hard as they could every pitch and still getting their fair share of solid contact.
You boys obviously, have never heard of Harmon Killebrew, who played for the Chattanooga Lookouts. He Hit a ball that went all the way to Chicago, from the Lookouts, Engel Stadium. Killebrew, hit a Home Run over the Center Field wall. It landed in a Boxcar, in the Train Yard behind the Stadium. When the ball was finally found, the Box Car was in Chicago. 😂😂 Wouldn't that be the Longest Hit? 😂😂 Probably not, but the story is True. Believe it or not. 😁 It's 604.4 miles between the two Cities.
I was about to say you need to find you a all aluminum bat from right before the composite and two or 3 piece bats came out.. i have a -3 Triple 7 that’s one piece all aluminum that would be perfect, and it’s damn near brand new.. but that’s what you need to use with that hard baseball, or start completely over with the homemade baseball and start with a golf ball in the center, we all know you can hit a golf ball 700ft with a metal bat.
The Babe to me absolutely hit the longest HR. Like he called his HR shot. Some things should be left for kids to believe in. My grandfather told me those stories as a child and after learning Santa wasn’t real I could always believe in the Babe and his stories. 🙏
Probably a tall tale. There's no video footage of it.The ball landed outside the stadium. I think they probably measured to where the ball stopped rolling. People also said he hit a 587 ft home run in Tampa. Supposedly Mickey Mantle hit 5 over 600 ft including one that was 734 ft. Tall tales and like i said probably counted where the bounced off the road and kept rolling eventually coming to a stop where someone picked it up.
My theory is that they measured from home plate to where the ball stopped after rolling then tried to estimate the distance in the air based on that. That would’ve likely gave the ball some extra distance off bounces, as calculations showed one Babe Ruth home run that was previously measured at 587 feet was actually closer to 550 feet. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a similar margin of error for the 575-foot one. An interesting caveat is that the 575-foot home run didn’t get immediate scrutiny like the 587-foot one, likely because the 575-foot one broke the career home run record at the time. It was probably a good story to say that he hit a ball 575 feet to break the record. That’s also backed up by later research from the Society for American Baseball Research, which placed the home run closer to 560 feet. There was also just an exaggeration of home run distance in that era; for example, I doubt Mickey Mantle hit multiple home runs over 630 feet, and he almost definitely did not hit one over 730 feet. Assuming Ruth’s largest home runs were closer to 550 feet, I think it’s actually a breakable record. Canseco (albeit on steroids) was only 35 feet short of the Guinness 575-foot mark, only 20 feet short of the Society for American Baseball Research mark, and only 10 feet short of what was initially said to be a 587-foot home run. With some wind assistance and a pitcher throwing nothing but 80 mile per hour fast balls, I think one of those roided up guys like McGwire, Canseco, Sosa, Manny, or Bonds could have done it. The only solution I see is to get Eric and Tosh on steroids!
Another thing is successor players who followed Babe Ruth without steroids but more bulk (Frank Howard, Frank Thomas, Adam Dunn, Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge) might in their primes could do so if you gave them a strong tailwind. But the lightest of those clean guys is the size of a NFL tight end at 6'6", 250 pounds with Dunn at his heaviest possibly exceeding 300 pounds. Edit: As in every last of these of these sluggers I named would have been much bigger than Babe with two of them as known college football players in Thomas (TE) and Dunn (QB)
Yep, 575 is literally not possible. Someone made the story up and people didn’t question. For whatever reason the MLB refuses to admit it, maybe they think it will ruin his legacy.
@@penguindb0912 Babe was known to regularly hit 500 footers. Literally the fields were bigger back then. His home field was 500ft+ to the back fence and he was regularly hitting it over that. Wind probably helped, and a hot pitch could also help. These guys tested 80mph, which is a *low average* for the time period. a hot pitch of the period (that would likely to cause a record breaking HR), would be in the low 90s. He was also known to swing bats up to 52 oz (heavier than they tested here). These are a lot of extra factors these guys haven't (and can't) replicate. Babe Ruth swung those bats every day for a decade, these guys just picked up the bat and are having trouble with it (and it's not even the weight of the heaviest bats he used). Ruth was built different. You test with the heavier bat, and a 90+ pitch, add a bit of wind, and you'll be hitting well over 500. It's not unbelievable at that point to say that Babe Ruth could hit it a bit further than that. The record is perfectly plausible.
I’am 56 and I remember seeing a book in the library when I was in jr high in which Babe Ruth hit a hr over that railing on top of Yankee stadium, don’t remember how long it was but it had a line from the batter’s box to that railing.
@@Bubbadudskii People won’t be talking about Trout in 100 years, nor will they be trying to recreate his home runs. Most people wouldn’t even pick Trout as the best player today. Ruth dominated the competition of his era and we’re still the same species.
Yeah, I feel like if Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds couldn't hit it that far in their primes while also being juiced to the gills, it's unlikely Ruth did, especially given that modern players are hitting 100mph pitches. Unless I suppose there was something significantly different about the balls and/or bats of his time that would give him an edge. It would be cool if it was true though. A fitting record for such a mythical figure. Also, what is the evidence for this claim based on anyway?
Well, his bat was heavier (he used even heavier bats then they tested in this video). The pitch for these high length homers were also probably 90+mph, not an 'average' pitch. Add a bit of wind and it becomes plausible.
Back when you hit the home run, the stadium was a little different so more wind would come in and blow the ball so that may be a reason he hit it so far.
There’s zero chance Babe hit it that far. People on the best channels aren’t hitting 575 with the best Metal bats. “Hero’s get remembered, legends never die”, 575 is part of the legend.
Yeah if you look it up he was small when he played in the minors and was far from a power hitter, but he'll when you are doing as much juice as bonds why not copy the attitude too.
@@Greg1096 My brother in Christ he was 6'2" and 215 lbs. In what world was he ever "Small"? lol He wasn't a power hitter because he just plain couldn't hit professional pitchers.
@@FarmerFigs the stat page I looked at for some reason was in kilograms and I just plain did the math wrong and thought it was 6'2" and like 160lbs lol so I was wrong on him being super small
Ruth's record HR in Navin Field in 1921 was hit with a 21-mph tail wind. So it needn't have been hit at 135 mph exit velocity. If anyone doubts Ruth's tape measure ability, read the work of Bill Jenkinson, who started a research project into the longest home runs ever hit, and was so amazed at what he learned about Ruth that he wrote a book just about Babe Ruth's unmatched 1921 season, in which Ruth's batted balls during that season would have produced 104 home runs in a typical MLB park today. The book is "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs". Jenkinson later wrote another book examining the all-time best distance hitters called "Absolute Power", in which he ranked Ruth number 1 all-time.
Just a suggestion, but please get Giancarlo Stanton or Aaron Judge in a video with a green cf zen bat. They could hit the ball 500ft+. Just get in contact with both of them please!
42oz.????? "THE BABE" used a 48oz. and a 52oz. bat! Babe's Ruth's longest Homer was a 626ft opposite-field shot in Tiger Stadium(Briggs Stadium),back in 1926!! Fact.....Then there's the "Babe Ruth sweet swing factor." "The Babe" went 6'2" 260lbs. and had huge hands with size 14 feet!! Broad shoulders, and a huge "barrel-chest" which means he had huge lungs which equates to much more power! "The Babe" was incredible....
Maybe his bat was torqued as well. That could have helped, don’t some players have torqued bats for batting practice when fans show up so they hit more home runs
6:04 That’s not accurate. The league became stricter on using cleaner baseballs that were livelier and more tightly stitched after the death of Ben Chapman in 1920. That incident basically ended the “dead all era” where balls where little more than a clump of mush after 6 innings.
I was at the Seattle vs Detroit game when JD Martinez hit a 470 footer at Comerica directly into dead center and the camera cage. For reference, the wall at Comerica center was 440, the deepest centerfield in the league. If that camera well wasn't there, that ball would have easily cleared 500ft.
If you look at some of the old archival footage of Babe swinging his bat, you can see he had a tremendous amount of bat speed. Just going off that it's definitely within the realms of possibility he tanked a ball 575ft
For those who don’t know it was mesiered wrong now they mesher from the plate to the spot the ball hit but on the ground then they did the same thing but at a diagonal angle witch increased distance
Look up baseball researcher Bill Jenkinson’s book on the longest home runs ever hit titled: “THE YEAR BABE RUTH HIT 104 HOME RUNS”… To his surprise, Jenkinson’s thorough investigations concluded that Ruth hit several home runs over 500’ and much of his power was to left center… Ruth was 6’2” and often well over 230lbs…. Phil Rizzuto attended many Yankees games in his youth and said that Ruth was a fine outfielder with a great arm.
i think something people don't think about that most stadiums back then didn't have seating along the out field wall so the ball bounced and rolled so I'm pretty sure thats where they would mark it for the distance. no we have bleachers and walls beyond the bleachers so the ball cant roll and bounce farther.
My argument for it being possible is the Schwarber homer against the Padres in the 2022 NLCS…that went like 487 feet and that was with no wind, sea cooled air and at sea level. Imagine if he hit that in Colorado with a breeze to right field…easily a 550 foot bomb. Take into consideration that the baseball of the 20s was much more juiced after the dead ball that preceded it and it’s quite possible. If Ruth didn’t pitch to start his career we are talking about a guy who could’ve been well over 800 homeruns and you need serious power to do that. Hell when Ruth was old, fat and washed up he hit three in his final game. Look at a guy like Barry Bonds…yes he ate a well balanced breakfast in the early 2000s but look at the ballpark he played in…a notorious pitcher friendly park near sea level and yet he hits 73 in a season. Great home run hitters usually do it with power and if you get an elite player in his prime in the right conditions with the right swing you could possibly match it. Remember another thing in ballparks getting in the way is seating…a ball might land 490 feet away but be in a second deck 60 feet or more above the ground.
Kong Kingman, the most notorious beast ever brought back alive by the New York Mets, hit a home run at Wrigley Field in Chicago that soared high over the ivy‐covered left‐field wall, high over the bleachers, high over the 30‐foot wire fence, high over the street outside and ricocheted off a red‐brick porch. Baseball surveyors estimated the distance at 630 feet from home plate to the bottom of the trajectory beyond the red‐brick porch, which makes it either the longest home run or the longest exaggeration in baseball history. But if the porch hadn't been there, autos on Lake Shore Drive might not have been safe.
they fixed that distane to about 535...which is still insane. I saw videos where they walk down the street and show you the porch it hit off...some ballhawks who live in the neighborhood have marked the distances alot of balls landed on the fly. Sosa has one in 2002 you can see on youtube that went 520!
Never happened never going to be done. Better equipment better balls. More training and no alcoholic batters. The guy who measure that ball was as drunk as babe when he hit it. It's measurements in feet not beer drank per game.
First of all, you are only partially correct that Ruth used a 42 oz. bat. He did use a 42 ouncer late in his career, but in 1920, when he hit the 575 footer in Detroit, he claimed to be using a 54 oz. bat. Historians haven't been able to verify that he used a 54 ouncer, but they have verified that his bats weighed 52 ounces. Second, the "live" ball was first used in 1920, so the ball used in your video was a "live" ball, not a "dead" ball, although MLB denies that the balls were livelier beginning in 1920. I would highly recommend that you all read a book titled "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs." Very enlightening.
575 seems unlikely since nobody has come close in the modern era of precise measurement with pitchers throwing harder and batters swinging for the fences. However there 2 obvious holes in your methodology. 1. Test subjects do not regularly swing the bat like babe did and don't seem to have even practiced much with it. You can't say the average pitcher in Ruth's day threw 80-85MPH. Nobody can say with any certainty until radar guns came around. And even if we accept that premise, what do we know about the pitcher who threw that home run? Was he known as a fireballer? What is the potential EV on a pitch 15MPH faster with the same bat speed, or a bat speed 10 MPH faster?
If you're going to test it on an actual baseball field, why not go to the one Ruth hit it on. The Corner Ballpark in Detroit is the site of Navin Field/Briggs Stadium/Tiger Stadium with home plate, base paths and the fences in the same place as before. Also, one of the Detroit papers did an article in the 1980s with the person who retrieved the ball back as a young boy. I would have to double check but I got the impression the 500+ feet distance is based on how far the ball actually traveled, not where it first landed.
This is outstanding. I've been waiting decades for someone to make this video, to test the myth of Ruth and discuss such a fascinating topic. Thank you.
Those 42 ounce bats were pretty prevalent in slow pitch softball for wallbangers, I am six foot five and a half and weighed 275 back in the day, and a 400 foot shot with a softball was possible before the limited fly ball was invented to prevent 20 homerun innings.
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Hey the homerun Babe Ruth hit that homerun was a bat that was A four-piece bat used by Babe Ruth is banned by American League president Ban Johnson because of the glue used on it. They took 4 pieces of wood and glued it together and that was the bat Babe Ruth used for that home run. You have to make a bat like that one. Babe Ruth only was able to use that bat for 14 games. So you have to recreate that bat if you really want to test it out.
Their is no way he ever hot anything over 450 ft. Even Bonds, mcgwire, canseco, sosa on Roids couldnt hit it father
It is so interesting to think that the makers of that ball had no idea that 100 years later their ball would be launched out of a pitching machine on video camera and seen by thousands of people on the “internet”.
It was the beer and hotdogs that made him a he man. LOL
Or that the balls would be tampered with to help or screw over some teams.
Cheating in baseball has been around as long as baseball has
I found it so disrespectful to do so ! They hang the country flag while destroying their history. I just don't get it
@@Platypus_Warriorit’s a fucking baseball.
I always wondered how the weather was when he did this. Tbh if the wind was just blowing enough with a exit velo of at least 105+. I could see it carrying over 500Feet now the whole extra 75 feet might be the stretch. But anything over 500 is WILD for that era.
i can see exit velo at 124 or 125 with a ten mile per hour wind really helping get to 550
I was at a spring training game. Massive wind. I’m standing by the fence in left. Ball is hit. Coming to me…then it hits the freaking jet stream and screams over the stands, the parking lot and the buss parked at the far edge. Wind is a heck of an influence.
There would have had to be crazy wind
I seem to remembering hearing that the way they measured homers might have been a bit different back then, and they might well have been measuring it from wherever the ball stopped rolling. So maybe a mixture of wind and then wonky measuring approaches by the MLB at the team contributed to the wild distance.
or they measured it after it stopped rolling
6:16 6:54 2 key points
1. The deadball era was until the end of the 1919 season. Those baseballs weren’t wounded tight and made with a different core. This explains why they would be lopsided and mashed on one side with very little home run rates. The balls used in the 20s were part of the live ball era. They were wound tighter, and sprung back to shape. These baseballs use the same cork rubber center like the balls used today.
2. Both American League and National League balls had multicolor stitching in the 1920s. This particular baseball is one from the 1952-1969 while Warren Giles was the President of the National League. In the 1920s it would’ve been John Heydler who was the president of the National League at the time.
Was it the core of the ball that changed in 1919 or simply the rules requiring balls to be changed?
Well it was a multitude of factors really.
- Baseballs during the pre-20s known as the “dead-ball era” use the rubber core until the 1910 World Series when it was introduced to its cork center core
- were usually not kept by fans as they were recycled back into the games. The repeated use would make the inside wool unravel thus loosening the integrity of the ball. Therefore it is why the balls were mashed and lopsided.
- during the deadball era, pitchers were allowed to scuff, spit, emery board, and make alterations to the ball during games. Thus resulting in uncontrollable flight patterns of the ball and difficulty seeing/hitting it.
- Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was killed from a pitched ball he couldn’t see, forcing the league to make rule changes on the ball. for example, the changing/removing of a baseball once it’s scuffed with a brand new white clean ball and outlawing the spit scuff etc.balls.
- while the rule changes were occurring during the 20s, Albert Spalding, owner of Spalding (where the balls where made) made an alteration in the construction of the ball.
- Started using Australian wool which was a lot stronger and wounded tighter. Thus giving the ball it’s “ rabbit hop “ appearance and shifting the balance from pitching to hitting overnight and igniting the “ live ball era “
In conclusion, yes, it was changed because of the rules ,incidents, Introduction of new materials, and of course The Babe; is how The live ball era was born. There were several minor changes done along the way from the 40s to the 70s but that is a different story
bleacherreport.com/articles/1676509-the-evolution-of-the-baseball-from-the-dead-ball-era-through-today
@@Dylan_Lover95 According to the sources I have seen, the live ball was introduced in 1914. Maybe there were further changes in the ball later, but what historians hold (maybe I'm one of them) is that it just took a few years before the live ball changed the game. Before the 1920s, baseball teams played little ball through the whole lineup and that did not change because of the introduction of the live ball.
Longest homer actually belongs to Tosh when he hit 1113 ft in the testing homemade baseballs video 😂
Babe was also built for power you could see it in his heavier frame. He was used to swinging a bat like that pretty much every time he played so you can imagine how strong he was day in day out swinging that log of a bat.
And pitches back then where so much easier to hit
@@rupert_1491 Yeah, Babe Ruth was the beneficiary of being in the league when a big expansion happened, with 8 teams joining the league at once. So when you look at his stats, and see him go from .322 average and 29 homers to .376 and 54 homers the next year, that was when the league expanded and had an influx of lesser talent filling rosters which created easier hitting.
I still don’t believe it. Lots of people that played back then were normal people. They weren’t as healthy and for a normal person to hit a ball that far is impossible. As you saw these are guys that hit the gym every day and didn’t even come close
@@radfordcardsandoutdoors05 it’s not just the gym it’s speed and hip power not saying gym does not help but it’s more than gym
Plus the swings were different too, in the old footage you see guys literally spin through their swings trying to put everything into their swings
I'd love to see how hard/far Stanton could hit the juice ball with a metal bat.
I was just thinking about typing this. Dude hits harder than anyone.
Ya not some washed up guy thinking there the best lol
@@Brobro449 Eric may talk shit and put on the act for content, but he's well aware he's not better than people in the Majors.
McGwire with a metal bat!!!
@@Brobro449 bro you’re actually stupid if you think Eric is being serious lmao I think he was very much humbled when he struggled in the minors and now just plays it up post career as a joke for content.
Ruth was 6'2" and in 1921 he was in very good shape. He wasn't always in good shape, but in the early 20s he was and then again briefly in 27 and 28. Imagine if he were in good shape his whole career.
He loved booze, food and tobacco too much.
@@Oz1976 don't forget the woman
@@TonyGilbert1 loving women generally increases your health. Generally. Unless taken to extre... never mind.
@Sam_on_youtube You’re right, People always think of him as fat and un athletic but he was rather athletic and well built in his earlier years, especially with the red Sox and his first couple of years with the Yankees. He was also a good base runner with decent speed.
@@Tr-fj4hr I always think of him as fat and surprisingly athletic
575ft it's hard to believe but Babe Ruth was a Savage thou..hitting a ball that's 103yrs old is CONTENT. Eric finally hit 450ft 💣 💣 💣 💣
I’ve always figured the ball ended up about 575 but landed around the 500 mark
yeah that machine is off that guy cant hit a 450 bomb with a wood bat
@twite I agree, it wad the "Dead Ball" era and if Babe Ruth did hit it 500ftz it would be 575ft in our day most likely. RUTH was a beast
It’s physically impossible to hit the ball 575 ft from a human, this video proved it. There’s no way you can swing a bat fast enough
@@707ridah no where near the power of judge or stanton tho, dude was fat and smoke cigars all day
It was a great attempt disproving Babe Ruth longest long home run. You tried everything, but the one thing missing was Babe Ruth swinging the bat.
Agreed. People tend to forget that Babe was LITERALLY larger than life back then even. He was 6'2" and listed at 215 though probably heavier. Another factor is that he not only swung the bat they used, but he used bats up to 54oz. IN GAME! Hardly fair to have the guys who are used to VERY light and short bats suddenly step up and swing basically a tree log. I mean they did do well, but Babe built his power with YEARS swinging those. I'd wager if given time to build the required swing they could hit one 500 feet with it no question.
@@redlightrunner930 I played in the Twins Organization for four years. Never made it to the Majors unfortunately, at 43-46 years old I played on my sons Division II College Summer baseball league and and averaged .503 those 4 years. I think I know what I'm talking about and you playing "competitive" ball with a bunch of out of shape 40 year olds is not impressive. I hit against Nolan Ryan is Spring Training and watched George Brett hit from the opposite dugout. Had Mark McGwire almost drive a ball down my throat while playing 3rd base. They made me look pathetic, I would make you look pathetic. Stay in your lane.
@@redlightrunner930 He wasn't fat his entire career.
@@omalleycaboose5937 come on now..
@@redlightrunner930 he was 6'2" and his playing weight was only 215, don't believe every caricature you see of someone. I'm fact towards the end of his career he also got his smoking and eating under control with the help of his wife
I feel like the 575 number is from where the ball ended up and not necessarily where it first touched the ground. And then through the years it was misinterpreted.
But he hit dozens of dingers over 550 so why is this one a lie?
You are correct. That has been determined.
@morganwright224
The 550's are also exaggerated.
@@homerun8032 says who???
@@homerun8032 says who?
I love how the old ball has a puff of dust every time it’s hit lmao
What were the wind conditions the day Ruth hit his home run …. Maybe it was super strong blowing out to the outfield.
Challenge for the crew. Nolan Ryan is reported to have thrown the fasted baseball of all time at 108.1 mph (when adjusted to modern measuring standards) try and hit a nuke off that
Don’t think the machine can pitch it that fast but they could definitely just move it closer to the plate.
@@theoriginalmountainerd5481 personally I'm not stepping foot anywhere near a machine throwing 108 😂
@@bbeproductions2631 that’ll take your head off 😂
He didn't throw 108. They're basing that off of an old radar gun that was probably calculating incorrectly to begin with. He might have hit 104-105, but definitely not 108. Someone else would have come close to it by now.
@@somegamer7958Nobody yesterday,today, or tomorrow threw harder than Ryan. No gun needed.
The problem with your "theory" is that the modern game of baseball is missing two factors. 1 the size and weight of Babe Ruth's bat was much different than todays bats. Why you may ask?? Pitching has changed. Bats have dropped size and weight because pitchers now throw faster than they used to and the reaction is faster with smaller bats. Also George's bats were made of ash. What happens when you swing a larger mass object with more momentum than a smaller object with less momentum. 2 Pitchers used to throw the ball much slower. Pitchers now throw 15 to 20 mph faster than they did during George's era. And if you think that would decrease distance well during a collision the mass of the larger object determines how much energy is transferred not the smaller one.
This is like Me running around the track to prove that Usain Bolt wasn’t the fastest runner ever.
Exactly
I’m confused, you think an out of shape drunk baseball player could hit a ball much farther and harder then the top athletes today?
@4:48,
Not if you're looking at average fastball peak velocity. Pitchers seldom threw fastballs back then, but when they did, the available footage and speeding motorcycle test data suggest the average pitcher was throwing in the low-90's. Back then, pitchers commonly put junk on the ball and pitched with reduced velocity with pitches that are now outlawed.
Walter Johnson was the hardest throwing pitcher of the time and topped out around 82 mph with his fastball
@@blazedbeye3412 The speeding-motorcycle test of the day showed him throwing in the 90's, although he probably never actually threw that hard. A Bridgeport, CT. munitions lab showed Walter Johnson throwing in the low-90's with a sidearm motion. There were players who played against Bob Feller and Walter Johnson who described Feller as slightly faster. Feller was clocked at over 100 mph at peak velocity.
1920s baseball and Eric gets folded like a suit at Goodwill.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The real number is 550 and some change, the plaque awarded to him gave it an extra 25 for some reason. But in the local paper at the time they state it was a little over 550 ft.
That's a different homerun that he hit in Tampa. The record home run was hit in Detroit.
What about all his other 550+ dingers. This is just the summer of 1921, there were dozens of others
575 in Detroit 7/18/1921 off Cole 8th inning 1 MOB
560 Cleveland 7/31/1921 off Caldwell 6th inn 2 MOB
550 Wrigley 8/17/1921 off Wieneke 6th inn 1 MOB
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If you could hit Nolan Ryan’s reported hardest pitch at 108/109
You should try this again. You did everything resemble to the time frame. Except for the hight of the mound for pitchers
I still have my great grandpa's bat from 1920. You can tell the difference from a regular -3 bat. I used to hit rubber baseballs with it and let me tell you something.... lmao. It launched them
edit: I have an orange stealth too. Bat is jesus
That orange stealth got me my first homerun on a regular size field at 13 😂
Yeah bats were longer and heavier, these day players with toothpicks so they don't strike out as much...
@@ekfliu glad that seems to be working lmao
15:42 the crack of this bat hitting the ball is one of the most satisfying sounds ever
Richie Allen used a very heavy bat and had tremendous power. Mantle hit a baseball that almost left Yankee Stadium. It hit the facade on the roof.
Mantle right on
Mantle hit one over 600
@houstontrimble2928 no he didn't. It is not possible for a human to hit a baseball that far with a wooden bat. He would need a hurricane force wind behind it.
@@houstontrimble2928 No
Duhhhhh. Those old school 500 foot homers are typically incorrect and bad guesses or the ball being measured after it bounced and rolled. Very few 500 foot homers of the past were correct. Some were of course but not many. Mark McGwire hit one that was allegedly 540 but when they accurately measured it was 480 same thing with Jose canseco and one that went 538 or 540 it was actually 470- 480. Andres galarraga hit one that was supposed to be around 5:30 and again it was actually in the 470 ballpark. Now that we have statcast and much better science, we are getting much more accurate distances than ever before. They aren't perfect but they're much closer than the guesstimations of the past. And if you think that they were accurately measuring the distance of homeruns back in babe Ruth era you are high. It's sad that people are so desperate to believe in Legends that they think that all the science and data we have today is less reliable than guesses and unreliable measurements from over 100 years ago. We know how hard a ball would have to come off the bat to reach over 550 ft. And it's more than 30 miles an hour faster than even the most hard-hit balls today. I'm sorry babe Ruth may have been a stud but he's not hitting the ball harder than Giancarlo and those guys. And if he is, it's definitely not 25 to 30 mph more. Just accept the fact that certain that there were incorrect distances listed back then and now that we know more about trajectory and exit velocity and all that shit, we realize the majority of the monster home runs were either exaggerated or completely fake
I love how as the 1920s ball gets more destroyed, they add more and more protection 😂
Now, you just need a guy around 27yrs old, 6'2", same weight as Babe, to study film and practice swinging like Babe, swinging that large, long 50oz bat for like a year or so, eat the same meal beforehand, do the same daily routine as Babe would've done before the game, THEN, do the tests at the same ballpark he hit 575 at, same wind conditions, same day of the year. It still seems like the 575ft is exaggerated/inaccurate.
Ahhh 1920. I remember the year. I was graduating my senior year of college in 1920. My best friend, Joe Definitelyreal Garland hit a baseball a "definitely verified trust me bro" 744 feet! If it didn't bounce off the 500 foot building that was 100 feet behind the stadium the ball would've travelled 1,233 feet, according to Doctor IstudyScience Jabar. I still remember that day so well. He was "just built different."
Careful...... there are people who will believe that. Nevermind that there wasn't a Coors field. Nevermind there wasn't science (stat cast) to verify anything. Nevermind that his team was New York where they believe everything is bigger, better, longer, etc. than anywhere else.
I was just at the site where he hit it in hot springs. The distance is accurate from the plate to the alligator farm.
Should've tried a slow pitch softball bat. Probably would break it but your exit velos would be smoked.
Confirmed… BABE must have been BUILT DIFFERENT 😅 grateful for the opportunity to compete against history! Awesome content fellas 👊 thankful to have been apart of it!
No, he had a 3 foot stride, people today have no stride at all like they're playing golf or something.
Look up Gil Carter, He played for the Carlsbad Potashers in the 50s. Reported 650ft in the air, found 730ft from home plate.
The boys of those eras were also doing manual labor as they came of age working in factories, farms, coal mines etc. Swinging a 50+oz bat was the natural evolution for Babe, while players of today have evolved for reaction speed swinging 33 oz refined toothpicks to catch up to 100mph. Mantle worked in the coal mines while boys of today might spend an hour in the gym. Big difference.
Ah yes all that time making dress shirts really got him ready to hit an 80 mph cotton ball 500 feet
Or there was a lot of embellishing by the press back in the day. Maybe they measured after it stopped rolling. But yeah those numbers back then were b.s.
Pete Alonso will deadlift more than the coals that were lifted by men back then. Your point?
Yes I remember if you just chores you can apparently hit a baseball 575ft
Right… and all the dorks acting like they’d last a day in that era are laughable.
we were told for years it was the "Mick" who hit one 565. He also had a physicist who said it shot off the facade at Detroit would have gone 610 had it not been impeded.
I remember watching a show as a kid that talked about that one. The show said it would have gone 612 feet if it wouldn't have hit a sign.
I saw an article of this physics major constructing a theory on how that ball was likely 520 feet instead of 565. Pretty interesting stuff
@@Ease1x It might be true, but that's still a bomb. It's not like people telling ghost stories or other complete BS. These shots really happened, but they had no way to verify the real distance so the estimations could have been off by quite a bit without them intentionally exaggerating it.
He never hit a homer anywhere near that. Don't you find it odd that all the longest homers are before the stat cast era & before there was a Coors field? Since stat cast (2015) there have been TWO 500+ foot homers. Neither more than 505 feet. But we are supposed to believe Mantle hit one 565 feet? Right.
@@brentrosencrans3968 The pitching and the bats changed before the stat cast era man. Pitches are slower, bats are lighter.
longest verified HR was Joey Meyer in 1987 for the Denver Zephyrs. The ball traveled a staggering 582 feet into the second deck at Mile High Stadium.
582 feet and stayed in the stadium? I think i been playing video games too much.
@@darrenjackson2800 I don’t know how the stayed in any stadium either but apparently he did hit it 582
The distance measurement is an approximation of where the ball would have landed if it had continued on its arc to ground level.
would love to see a video of how much wind plays a factor in fly balls in stadiums blowing in and out and maybe even use wind to see how far of a homerun you could get as well.
One of my favorite episodes. But the main reason you didn’t prove it is, you are the greatest hitter in baseball history, Babe Ruth.
He was great, but not the best ever. He faced guys throwing in the 70's. He never faced the velocity or movement that post 1960's players have faced. He never faced anyone like Satchel Page, Bob Gibson, Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, and the like
You guys make me so happy.. I actually watch your whole commercial to make sure you get that support
i would love to see a colab with stuff made here and see how eric handles the explosive powered bat
The only way to hit a baseball 575 ft is a perfect 35° launch angle, 120-125 mph off of the bat with around a 30-50 mph wind behind it.
Any home run considered to be one of the longest on history has always had a big wind behind it.
Reggie Jackson hit a home run in the 1971 All Star game with a 24 mph wind behind it that went 539 ft. This is approximate, of course, but it went no less than 530ft and had a substantial gust of wind behind it
He hit 500 footers many times per month, the fields were 490-500 foot deep. He was hitting the out of the park in these stadiums, many of them they had no idea where it landed but they knew how far it went at the minimum. If you hit it five rows deep at the polo grounds center field you can assume it's 530+ feet
No chance. If elite athletes with premium equipment can't do it, it was not possible back then. Physics does not lie.
@@kschell286 They still use wooden bats, and smaller, lighter bats no less. Less weight means less momentum, less size means less leverage.
The average MLB bat is between 34 and 36oz today; Ruth is said to have used bats as heavy as ~50oz (1.4kg), which is almost 30% heavier. Likewise these bats were also several inches longer. Combined, they would have imparted more force on the ball than a modern bat will. In other words, physics does not lie.
there is not one single human being on this planet..today or in the past, who could swing a 50 oz bat at 100mph like they do today. Yes they had more mass but also slower batting speed. If you increase the mass but reduce the speed you may end hitting at a shorter distance but of course it all depends on exit velocity or launch angle. As they said in the video you would need a ball hit at 135 mph at a 28 degree launch angle to hit 575 feet.. If you want to have a chance to hit a ball at 135 mph you would need a minimum of around 100 mph bat speed to generate enough force. No chance with a 50 oz bat to do so. Im not even
counting the fact that the average fast ball in that era was around 80-85 mph. which is also a factor for hitting long homeruns
@@xoeleox2079
@@kschell286 Recency bias is so Gen Z.
If Giancarlo and Judge couldn't hit one that far in a HR derby, no way a skinny fat Babe Ruth did
Honestly Ohtania should help you guys hit farthest home run record because that man has some power. Today he launched a 415 ft home run that had a 116 mph exit velo
Yea he literally hit a HR through the roofs of a dome stadium. Imagine if that roof didnt exist…
Add wind +17mph (documented average on record day), change bat to 50oz (was known to use one that heavy), have custom balls made to replicate era balls, and maybe increase pitch speed to account for a possible hot pitcher.
Also, have some mathematical/computer geniuses analyze old footage for specs of Babe, bat, and swing speed. Analyze old pics for ball location, distance to home plate, possible upper deck roof bounce, etc.
Consider that he also used this equipment his entire life , his body and swing where more fluent with it. Now let’s say wind helps carry the ball. I think possible.
The Polo Grounds IV when Ruth played was 450 to left center, 449 to right center and 483 straight center. Down the lines were short but people hit homers to the power alleys there.
and there have only been 3 people to hit a hr dead center. none of which were babe ruth. in fact, none of them played before the 50's. we'll out of the dead ball era
And 258 to the foul pole... "Right center" was pretty far from right field on their dimensions chart. Lots of fly balls to right today would end up in the seats on those dimensions, the question is, how many would be lost to dead center.
You also have to take into consideration his batting stance and his swing as a factor that could’ve caused it to go far
Such a minimal factor. Realistically it was probably a high wind day going out the way the ball went. 575 def didn’t happen, maybe 500 but I even doubt that
@@Niickooo Well we've seen Mark McGwire hit the baseball 540. And a lesser of a power hitter Andres Galaraga hit the ball 535 feet. 575 is recognized by MLB, I'm betting they did a lot of research into this for it to officially be in the record books. Babe Ruth wasn't a normal Human being, he was a giant for his era, just pure bulk (fat and muscle and tall) and swung a giant bat that, by the looks of his footage, he could swing with ease with a very high bat velo (much higher and easier than Momentum guys). He was also probably on drugs like cocaine and shit cuz he was known for being an animal too. Some drugs give almost superhuman strength.
I think it's possible.
Babe also always swung heavy bats. These dudes just picked up the heavy bat that day.
Dude had a huge midsection and while not the ideal "athletic" body, he had the build of a workers body. He also had a huge stride towards the pitcher.
You wonder if his size and strength combined to give him more torque on the swing. If the pitchers were throwing more 85 mph fastballs it would make sense that guys could be swinging really huge bats as hard as they could every pitch and still getting their fair share of solid contact.
@S Des OK..but statistically harder pitched balls travel farther off the bat so...
Hey Eric sim. I have a video idea. How far can you hit a golf ball with a wood and metal bat. Maybe you can come close to 571 ft that way
Something tells me the wind played a roll in Babe Ruth's homerun. Not trying to knock it or anything, but it probably helped.
i agree...the ballpark had a much lower profile and wind effected balls easier
I was gonna say I highly doubt he hit a 575 foot homerun. I use to play softball and the girls that where built to hit home runs, never did.
You can’t have launch angle AND high exit velo. Its one or the other. Kinda like Hot/less crazy.
what are you doing here?
@@PrimePlayzGames your mind is gonna get blown soon :)
The amount of effort put into this video is unbelievable
You boys obviously, have never heard of Harmon Killebrew, who played for the Chattanooga Lookouts. He Hit a ball that went all the way to Chicago, from the Lookouts, Engel Stadium.
Killebrew, hit a Home Run over the Center Field wall. It landed in a Boxcar, in the Train Yard behind the Stadium. When the ball was finally found, the Box Car was in Chicago. 😂😂 Wouldn't that be the Longest Hit? 😂😂
Probably not, but the story is True. Believe it or not. 😁 It's 604.4 miles between the two Cities.
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I was about to say you need to find you a all aluminum bat from right before the composite and two or 3 piece bats came out.. i have a -3 Triple 7 that’s one piece all aluminum that would be perfect, and it’s damn near brand new.. but that’s what you need to use with that hard baseball, or start completely over with the homemade baseball and start with a golf ball in the center, we all know you can hit a golf ball 700ft with a metal bat.
The Babe to me absolutely hit the longest HR. Like he called his HR shot. Some things should be left for kids to believe in. My grandfather told me those stories as a child and after learning Santa wasn’t real I could always believe in the Babe and his stories. 🙏
Don’t look at the light eric. Sounded like he was talking to his son😂
Probably a tall tale. There's no video footage of it.The ball landed outside the stadium. I think they probably measured to where the ball stopped rolling. People also said he hit a 587 ft home run in Tampa. Supposedly Mickey Mantle hit 5 over 600 ft including one that was 734 ft. Tall tales and like i said probably counted where the bounced off the road and kept rolling eventually coming to a stop where someone picked it up.
Conclusion? Babe could hit the ball alot farther than your friends can
My theory is that they measured from home plate to where the ball stopped after rolling then tried to estimate the distance in the air based on that. That would’ve likely gave the ball some extra distance off bounces, as calculations showed one Babe Ruth home run that was previously measured at 587 feet was actually closer to 550 feet. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a similar margin of error for the 575-foot one. An interesting caveat is that the 575-foot home run didn’t get immediate scrutiny like the 587-foot one, likely because the 575-foot one broke the career home run record at the time. It was probably a good story to say that he hit a ball 575 feet to break the record. That’s also backed up by later research from the Society for American Baseball Research, which placed the home run closer to 560 feet. There was also just an exaggeration of home run distance in that era; for example, I doubt Mickey Mantle hit multiple home runs over 630 feet, and he almost definitely did not hit one over 730 feet. Assuming Ruth’s largest home runs were closer to 550 feet, I think it’s actually a breakable record. Canseco (albeit on steroids) was only 35 feet short of the Guinness 575-foot mark, only 20 feet short of the Society for American Baseball Research mark, and only 10 feet short of what was initially said to be a 587-foot home run. With some wind assistance and a pitcher throwing nothing but 80 mile per hour fast balls, I think one of those roided up guys like McGwire, Canseco, Sosa, Manny, or Bonds could have done it. The only solution I see is to get Eric and Tosh on steroids!
Another thing is successor players who followed Babe Ruth without steroids but more bulk (Frank Howard, Frank Thomas, Adam Dunn, Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge) might in their primes could do so if you gave them a strong tailwind. But the lightest of those clean guys is the size of a NFL tight end at 6'6", 250 pounds with Dunn at his heaviest possibly exceeding 300 pounds.
Edit: As in every last of these of these sluggers I named would have been much bigger than Babe with two of them as known college football players in Thomas (TE) and Dunn (QB)
What did you use to track your hits
Unless you have a gale force wind at sea level they've done studies that like high 400s is about the max you can get
Yep, 575 is literally not possible. Someone made the story up and people didn’t question. For whatever reason the MLB refuses to admit it, maybe they think it will ruin his legacy.
@@penguindb0912 Babe was known to regularly hit 500 footers. Literally the fields were bigger back then. His home field was 500ft+ to the back fence and he was regularly hitting it over that.
Wind probably helped, and a hot pitch could also help. These guys tested 80mph, which is a *low average* for the time period. a hot pitch of the period (that would likely to cause a record breaking HR), would be in the low 90s. He was also known to swing bats up to 52 oz (heavier than they tested here).
These are a lot of extra factors these guys haven't (and can't) replicate. Babe Ruth swung those bats every day for a decade, these guys just picked up the bat and are having trouble with it (and it's not even the weight of the heaviest bats he used). Ruth was built different.
You test with the heavier bat, and a 90+ pitch, add a bit of wind, and you'll be hitting well over 500. It's not unbelievable at that point to say that Babe Ruth could hit it a bit further than that. The record is perfectly plausible.
I’am 56 and I remember seeing a book in the library when I was in jr high in which Babe Ruth hit a hr over that railing on top of Yankee stadium, don’t remember how long it was but it had a line from the batter’s box to that railing.
Babe is the goat
I think trout is the goat because Ruth went against 80 and Mike would hit homers every time in that case.
Sorry my guy but Babe was kinda trash
@@Bubbadudskii People won’t be talking about Trout in 100 years, nor will they be trying to recreate his home runs. Most people wouldn’t even pick Trout as the best player today. Ruth dominated the competition of his era and we’re still the same species.
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Yeah, I feel like if Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds couldn't hit it that far in their primes while also being juiced to the gills, it's unlikely Ruth did, especially given that modern players are hitting 100mph pitches. Unless I suppose there was something significantly different about the balls and/or bats of his time that would give him an edge.
It would be cool if it was true though. A fitting record for such a mythical figure.
Also, what is the evidence for this claim based on anyway?
Well, his bat was heavier (he used even heavier bats then they tested in this video). The pitch for these high length homers were also probably 90+mph, not an 'average' pitch. Add a bit of wind and it becomes plausible.
Back when you hit the home run, the stadium was a little different so more wind would come in and blow the ball so that may be a reason he hit it so far.
Polo Grounds was a hell of a stadium.
There’s zero chance Babe hit it that far. People on the best channels aren’t hitting 575 with the best Metal bats. “Hero’s get remembered, legends never die”, 575 is part of the legend.
I appreciate Eric’s confidence! He’s never been close to the the MLB but has the exact same attitude as Barry Bonds
Yeah if you look it up he was small when he played in the minors and was far from a power hitter, but he'll when you are doing as much juice as bonds why not copy the attitude too.
@@Greg1096 My brother in Christ he was 6'2" and 215 lbs. In what world was he ever "Small"? lol He wasn't a power hitter because he just plain couldn't hit professional pitchers.
@@FarmerFigs the stat page I looked at for some reason was in kilograms and I just plain did the math wrong and thought it was 6'2" and like 160lbs lol so I was wrong on him being super small
All I’m gonna say is without all the video evidence, people in a 100 years would be claiming John Daly was a myth. (Not saying Ruth did it)
Ruth's record HR in Navin Field in 1921 was hit with a 21-mph tail wind. So it needn't have been hit at 135 mph exit velocity. If anyone doubts Ruth's tape measure ability, read the work of Bill Jenkinson, who started a research project into the longest home runs ever hit, and was so amazed at what he learned about Ruth that he wrote a book just about Babe Ruth's unmatched 1921 season, in which Ruth's batted balls during that season would have produced 104 home runs in a typical MLB park today. The book is "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs". Jenkinson later wrote another book examining the all-time best distance hitters called "Absolute Power", in which he ranked Ruth number 1 all-time.
What program do they use?
Just a suggestion, but please get Giancarlo Stanton or Aaron Judge in a video with a green cf zen bat. They could hit the ball 500ft+. Just get in contact with both of them please!
42oz.????? "THE BABE" used a 48oz. and a 52oz. bat! Babe's Ruth's longest Homer was a 626ft opposite-field shot in Tiger Stadium(Briggs Stadium),back in 1926!! Fact.....Then there's the "Babe Ruth sweet swing factor." "The Babe" went 6'2" 260lbs. and had huge hands with size 14 feet!! Broad shoulders, and a huge "barrel-chest" which means he had huge lungs which equates to much more power! "The Babe" was incredible....
No, that never happened.
when the orange stealth bat cracked, i gasped and said out loud: "the curse of the bambino!"
Maybe his bat was torqued as well. That could have helped, don’t some players have torqued bats for batting practice when fans show up so they hit more home runs
16:09 Everyone when they merge onto the 405 at rush hour!
Are you guys able to factor different wind speeds and direction into the hitting simulator???
Babe never hit a ball 575ft. It’s a great myth though. The legend of Babe Ruth is good for baseball.
6:04 That’s not accurate. The league became stricter on using cleaner baseballs that were livelier and more tightly stitched after the death of Ben Chapman in 1920. That incident basically ended the “dead all era” where balls where little more than a clump of mush after 6 innings.
I was at the Seattle vs Detroit game when JD Martinez hit a 470 footer at Comerica directly into dead center and the camera cage. For reference, the wall at Comerica center was 440, the deepest centerfield in the league. If that camera well wasn't there, that ball would have easily cleared 500ft.
If you look at some of the old archival footage of Babe swinging his bat, you can see he had a tremendous amount of bat speed. Just going off that it's definitely within the realms of possibility he tanked a ball 575ft
Not even close
Eric after getting a bad hit: ""OW JAMMED OWW"" 5:23
For those who don’t know it was mesiered wrong now they mesher from the plate to the spot the ball hit but on the ground then they did the same thing but at a diagonal angle witch increased distance
Look up baseball researcher Bill Jenkinson’s book on the longest home runs ever hit titled: “THE YEAR BABE RUTH HIT 104 HOME RUNS”… To his surprise, Jenkinson’s thorough investigations concluded that Ruth hit several home runs over 500’ and much of his power was to left center… Ruth was 6’2” and often well over 230lbs…. Phil Rizzuto attended many Yankees games in his youth and said that Ruth was a fine outfielder with a great arm.
i think something people don't think about that most stadiums back then didn't have seating along the out field wall so the ball bounced and rolled so I'm pretty sure thats where they would mark it for the distance. no we have bleachers and walls beyond the bleachers so the ball cant roll and bounce farther.
My argument for it being possible is the Schwarber homer against the Padres in the 2022 NLCS…that went like 487 feet and that was with no wind, sea cooled air and at sea level. Imagine if he hit that in Colorado with a breeze to right field…easily a 550 foot bomb. Take into consideration that the baseball of the 20s was much more juiced after the dead ball that preceded it and it’s quite possible. If Ruth didn’t pitch to start his career we are talking about a guy who could’ve been well over 800 homeruns and you need serious power to do that. Hell when Ruth was old, fat and washed up he hit three in his final game.
Look at a guy like Barry Bonds…yes he ate a well balanced breakfast in the early 2000s but look at the ballpark he played in…a notorious pitcher friendly park near sea level and yet he hits 73 in a season. Great home run hitters usually do it with power and if you get an elite player in his prime in the right conditions with the right swing you could possibly match it. Remember another thing in ballparks getting in the way is seating…a ball might land 490 feet away but be in a second deck 60 feet or more above the ground.
Kong Kingman, the most notorious beast ever brought back alive by the New York Mets, hit a home run at Wrigley Field in Chicago that soared high over the ivy‐covered left‐field wall, high over the bleachers, high over the 30‐foot wire fence, high over the street outside and ricocheted off a red‐brick porch. Baseball surveyors estimated the distance at 630 feet from home plate to the bottom of the trajectory beyond the red‐brick porch, which makes it either the longest home run or the longest exaggeration in baseball history. But if the porch hadn't been there, autos on Lake Shore Drive might not have been safe.
they fixed that distane to about 535...which is still insane. I saw videos where they walk down the street and show you the porch it hit off...some ballhawks who live in the neighborhood have marked the distances alot of balls landed on the fly. Sosa has one in 2002 you can see on youtube that went 520!
Maybe Eric could beat it with the Easton Hype Fire?
Look at Gehrig. Built like a tank, a weightlifter and a football star. He had a great swing. Yet Ruth hit the ball further.
Never happened never going to be done. Better equipment better balls. More training and no alcoholic batters. The guy who measure that ball was as drunk as babe when he hit it. It's measurements in feet not beer drank per game.
“And the only way to find out is to have these average joes hit on a simulator in a cage” 😂
In 1987 Joey Meyer hit a ball 582 feet in Denver’s mile high stadium (but this is talking about mlb he was in AAA aka triple A when he it 582)
And these guys did a video on that where dude hit 581... Juiced bats, but much lighter than 54 ounces so the juiced bats compensated for that.
First of all, you are only partially correct that Ruth used a 42 oz. bat. He did use a 42 ouncer late in his career, but in 1920, when he hit the 575 footer in Detroit, he claimed to be using a 54 oz. bat. Historians haven't been able to verify that he used a 54 ouncer, but they have verified that his bats weighed 52 ounces. Second, the "live" ball was first used in 1920, so the ball used in your video was a "live" ball, not a "dead" ball, although MLB denies that the balls were livelier beginning in 1920. I would highly recommend that you all read a book titled "The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs." Very enlightening.
575 seems unlikely since nobody has come close in the modern era of precise measurement with pitchers throwing harder and batters swinging for the fences. However there 2 obvious holes in your methodology.
1. Test subjects do not regularly swing the bat like babe did and don't seem to have even practiced much with it.
You can't say the average pitcher in Ruth's day threw 80-85MPH. Nobody can say with any certainty until radar guns came around. And even if we accept that premise, what do we know about the pitcher who threw that home run? Was he known as a fireballer? What is the potential EV on a pitch 15MPH faster with the same bat speed, or a bat speed 10 MPH faster?
If you're going to test it on an actual baseball field, why not go to the one Ruth hit it on.
The Corner Ballpark in Detroit is the site of Navin Field/Briggs Stadium/Tiger Stadium with home plate, base paths and the fences in the same place as before.
Also, one of the Detroit papers did an article in the 1980s with the person who retrieved the ball back as a young boy. I would have to double check but I got the impression the 500+ feet distance is based on how far the ball actually traveled, not where it first landed.
If you're going the robot route, both Smarter Every Day and Stuff Made Here have already made bats that will easily crush the homerun record.
One thing you didn’t factor in is wind. If he hit with the wind it would carry it further. Not sure about another 125 feet
This is outstanding. I've been waiting decades for someone to make this video, to test the myth of Ruth and discuss such a fascinating topic. Thank you.
Those 42 ounce bats were pretty prevalent in slow pitch softball for wallbangers, I am six foot five and a half and weighed 275 back in the day, and a 400 foot shot with a softball was possible before the limited fly ball was invented to prevent 20 homerun innings.
What if you hit it with a side step? Did they hit it in the same way back then?