Babe Ruth's Last Baseball Game! Rare Footage - 1935
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Rare Footage of Babe Ruth's Last (Full) Baseball Game. May 29, 1935. Babe signed with the cash-strapped Boston Braves with the promise of becoming their manager at the start of the 1936 season. He retired the very next game after just one at bat.
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As a 74 year-old baseball fan, I'd like to thank you for the great video. Same game...different planet. Kinda sad seeing the Babe after such a glorious career in baseball. He will always be the player every other player is compared to.
You're welcome. I have 2 other Babe Ruth videos that I posted recently, check them out!
It's a good point. He is still the measuring stick to how good someone is. I never though of it that way.
The story is that sign says "The Phillies use Lifebouy" and in 1935 someone painted under it "and they still stink".
88 years later, still true! :0)
Joe Garagiola said that in Ken Burns Baseball
Ivory is so pure it floats
He was and still is my favorite player of all time thank you for the memories and footage
No problem! Check out my other Babe videos!
My grandmother was a little older than Ruth and was living in the same neighborhood before he was sent off to St. Mary's Industrial School. She said the kids all called him Codfishmouth when he was a boy, because he was always eating codfish.
That is the best AND oddest thing that I've ever heard about Babe! Thank you for sharing. This made my night.
I'll bet it wasn't for eating codfish, but looking like one.
Cod are pretty tasty though.
Best baseball player ever!!!
Yes, he was. It would have been fitting if he had retired after hitting three home runs in one game at Forbes Field, no long before this.
@@garymorris1856I wonder why he didn't retire then.
@@stevenzimmerman4057 Yes, he probably should have, but his autobiography said that he promised the owner to make the Memeorial Day weekend road trip.
I don't know how anyone can dispute this. Even this diehard Red Sox fan admits it.
@@Theo_Skeptomai I mean, he was on the Red Sox first. The fans aren't responsible for the actions of a stupid owner. Lol.
I read somewhere that Babe's knees hurt so badly, it made it hard to run. He still had the swing, but physically he was a wreck at this point in his career
I can imagine that. He played for 21 years and was dead at 53. He was a hard-living, hard-playing, hard-drinking SOB who was the "king" of the world at one time and still never forgotten.
Great footage. This was just a year before Chuck Klein came back to Philly from the Cubs.
Awesome footage, thank you for sharing this piece of history!
Yes, we know. May 30th, 1935 after just one at bat and batting .181.
You just repeated everything the text said at the beginning of the video, what was your point?
This beyond gold.. anything with the Babe in colour is to be cherished. Also, this is some of the best footage of the Baker Bowl out there. Check out that short right field porch!
that picture with Ruth in the Braves uniform with Lou Gehrig is amazing.
Awesome footage. Hollywood and the media really painted a bad pic of Ruth in his tail end of his career. The man still looked good, they called him names like "pot bellied." Nah, he still glides like a gazelle and had the power of an ox, even with all the pain his body underwent. Playing for 20+ years to age 40. He also ate and drank like a champ, when the entire USA couldnt due to the Great Depression. The man was just a beast compared to the average man. Babe is the true GOAT.
No truer words, my friend, no truer words...
Wow now that is rare. Thanks...
This is very cool to watch, thank you.
You're welcome. Check out my other Babe Ruth videos.
2:38. Notice the scoreboard lists the Phillies on top. However, they actually played this game in Philly.
You can tell it’s at the Baker Bowl in Philly by the infamous Lifebuoy soap billboard.
I don't think that was standardized until the 40s.
@@BobbyJackShow , you probably are right. The scoreboard operator put a zero for Boston on the bottom row for the 4th inning but no number yet for the Phillies on the top row. That’s another hint that the Phillies still were at bat in the bottom of the 4th as the home team.
@@straycatttt2766some score board operators post runs when the half inning is still being played. You keep a running total on the far right. Never place a numeral on the left until the half inning is completed.
The Phillies use Lifebuoy Soap, and they still stink! I've been to where the Baker Bowl was, and that building behind center field is still there. It looked ratty and run down with a ton of graffiti all over. My high school baseball field had deeper dimensions than this old park, except for the deep LCF where the clubhouse was located. Thanks for an incredible video.
I think the Braves are wearing home uniforms though
That is so awesome someone had the heart and foresight and money to record this in color! That is really sad though seeing the Babe with him knowing he's finished as a ballplayer...not to mention Baker Bowl had been the laughing stock of all MLB stadiums at the time for many years. Still even after the Phils finally left it after 1938, it still hung on for 12 more years hosting other things like auto racing (you can see some neat pics via Google Image seach of how Baker Bowl looks as an auto race track).
Absolutely. I got so excited when I found this home movie and wanted to share it. The guy behind it was rather wealthy. He owned a hosiery mill in North Philly, not that far from Baker Bowl. I have seen the pictures of racing at the Bowl. Shibe/Connie had a pretty terrible demise, as well, sans auto racing. Have you seen the other Babe Ruth videos that I have posted?
@@BobbyJackShow He HAD to be wealthy to afford that color film!
Very much so! He retired at 50 and traveled the world. He lived on Princeton Ave in Mayfair and died in 1996. He wife was a Biddle. $$$ @@JohnSmith-zw8vp
He also did made this home movie of Northeast Philly in 1943... ruclips.net/video/bveKycwjJoU/видео.html
Boston all time great - Babe Ruth
And YANKEE
Nice clip never seen it before
🌺✝️🌺R.I.P. ⚾️ God Bless The Babe! ⚾️
Phillies used Lifebuoy Soap--and they still stunk
Not much has changed in 88 years. :0)
Those buildings in the background are still there
This was neat and fun to watch. I felt like I was looking back to a much simpler time. Later that very day, the first night game in baseball history was played in Cincinnati.
That I didn't know. I had read something about the first night game being played in the 50s with the advent of tv.
Was Vin Scully doing the commentary?
Am I mistaken, or is the inning-by-inning scoreboard listing the home team on top at the Baker Bowl? Just curious.
Yes, it wasn't standardized until the 1940s.
Notice the lack of a mound.
Didn't really come into play until the 1940s.
There was a Lifebuoy ad at Ebbets Field, too.
And one at Fenway Park above Duffy's Cliff before there was a Green Monster.
Good footage of Baker Bowl. Who is the Phillies number 12?
Jimmie Wilson was my first guess and it seems to be true. Apparently, he was my father's stepfather's exwife's first husband's brother. At least that was the story I heard growing up.
Nice to see some good footage from nearly a century ago! How dramatic are the differences between the game then and now. Suffice it to say that the entry of Blacks, Hispanics, Asians (think Ohtani!), and others has helped transform the game from one played by mostly flat-footed, slow-paced individuals - many of whom were probably just postponing getting real work for themselves - to one now played by some of the world's truly great athletes. And to think that not even Mays, Aaron, and some others from the early 50s would have been permitted to play in the bigs when the Babe was finishing up - just slightly more than a decade earlier. I have seriious doubts about whether Ruth and so many of his contemporaries, and of course those who preceded him, could have succeeded in today's game. Obviously, they would have gotten into much better shape, but might not have had the natural talent to blend with the muscle to be competitive. Not against today's pitching, anyhow. Unfortunately, that's something we'll never know.
The runner on first at :57 has quite a lead.
SBs wasn't seen as a defensive worry back then, apparently.
@@BobbyJackShow It was 'station-to-station' baseball in those days.
I noticed that lead; looked like with the lead he had he could have stolen second easily.
which is why he was picked off but he got lucky and was safe on E2.
Inn Score Out RoB R/O @Bat Batter Play Description
Top of the 1st, Braves Batting, Tied 0-0, Phillies' Orville Jorgens facing 1-2-3
t1 0-0 0 --- BSN Billy Urbanski Double
t1 0-0 0 -2- BSN Tommy Thompson Walk
t1 0-0 0 12- BSN Babe Ruth Thompson Picked off 1B, safe on E2; Urbanski to 3B
t1 0-0 0 1-3 BSN Babe Ruth Walk; Thompson to 2B
t1 0-0 0 123 RR BSN Wally Berger Single; Urbanski Scores; Thompson Scores; Ruth to 2B
He had 3 in a game this season.
Yes, he also ended this season batting .181.
Didn't say it was a banner season
@BobbyJackShow For what it's worth, what I find interesting is that despite the .181 BA, his other numbers relative to the league were not all that bad. Bad for him, yes. But he had a 119 OPS+ which is pretty decent (avove average relative to the league). His on base was around .360.
If his batting average had been around .250, he might have stayed a little longer that year. Who knows? But it was time for him to go, and at least he knew that, I think.
@@DaDitka I think he just burned out after getting burned by Shlomo Fuchs with promises of gate receipts, a managerial position, etc. He probably just figured it was time to hang it up, too. He was later F'ed over by Brooklyn with promises of a management position. He probably got tired of being paraded around in the NL. I haven't read anything about what he thought in his last season. I'd love to know exactly what was going through his head when he hung up his cleats.
@@DaDitkaI think it was because Ruth had never really faced NL pitching before. Only time he faced them was in the World Series. If Ruth adjusted more, I think he’d maybe bat 260 with an OPS over 900 at the age of 40.
THERE IS ONLY ONE BABE RUTH ,THE BAMBINO, SULTAN OF SWAT, HE DID IT ALL, CHECK OUT HIS STATS, EVEN HIS PITCHING RECORD WAS REMARKABLE. WE ALL WORE HIS NO 3, HAD HIS BATS AND MEMORIES OF THE GREAT ONE FOREVER
SEE YOU IN HEAVEN BABE, HOD WILLING, IN JESUS NAME I PRAY. AMEN .
GOD
Babe ruths last game was the first game of a double header on May 30th 1935. I mean it. ❤
40 was old
The Braves are wearing home uniforms though
Ruth was hitting .188, not .138 at the start of the game on May 29, 1935,
Thank you so much for the update. I look forward to your videos.
Don't think I would consider winning by 2 runs a rout.
A "rout" is a decisive victory. It has nothing to do with a lopsided score. The Braves scored early and often, a decisive win, a rout. The Phillies never came close to winning.
No helmets, even on the catcher! Tight inside pitch, just bend at the waist and let it go by. When men were men!
I used to do some umpiring. Didn't wear a hard cup to protect myself below the waist. When the catcher missed the pitch and it hit me down there where it counts, it felt worse than getting kicked and kneed down there, and I have had all 3 types happen to me down there either in baseball, football, etc.. 3 strikes, I'm out!!!!
African-Americans still weren’t allowed to play. You know that right?
In his final game he hit 3 homers. One was the longest ever hit in Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. 500 feet. Only Willie Stargell hit one as long or longer in that Grand Canyon.
What?! When did you make this up?
@@BobbyJackShow Look it up.
@@ronniecozzi8385 The 3 homeruns happened the week prior to this game. I don't have to look it up. I know facts.
@@ronniecozzi8385👈😃
☝️😆👌 Clueless!
Yep, that last one cleared the right field roof.
What position did he play? (besides pitcher) I’ve seen thousands of clips of Babe Ruth at bat. But I’ve never seen a clip of him making a fielding play. I wonder how good in the field he was? How many home runs did he hit playing with the Braves, before he retired so early in the season?
Ruth hit six home runs with the Braves, including three on May 25 against the Pirates. The last one cleared the right field roof at Forbes Field. Some say that was the longest home run ever hit at the ballpark, even though Willie Stargell hit a few over that roof as well.
Ruth played five different positions in his career. He played most often in right field, which is what everyone remembers, but had almost as many appearances in left. He began his career as a very good pitcher, and played center field and first base occasionally. I am not aware of contemporary accounts that call him a poor defensive player.
@@8avexp Thanks for that info. Wow, that’s pretty insane, hitting 3 home runs in a game, and then saying:
“hey, I’m not good enough to play anymore, I’m going to retire” I wish I was that “bad”, when I was in Little League.
@@roberthudson1959 Thanks for that information. Yes I knew he was a pitcher for the first 5 years. But I’ve never seen one video clip of him ever making a defensive play with a glove. Other than playing catch on the sidelines. & I always wondered when we went to the Yankees. Couldn’t they still have him pitch once every 5 games, and play the outfield for the other 4 games?
@@MikeCee7I doubt that the stationary cameras of the day could track the ball well enough to capture a play in the outfield.
I was there in the mid sixties. No parking. Columns. People smoking cigars. In 1970 the Vet opened
Wrong ballpark, Gladys. You're thinking of Shibe Park (aka Connie Mack Stadium), where the Phillies began playing in 1938 (all A's, prior). This is the Baker Bowl.
My mistake I was 6
That would have been Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium. Shibe Park (1909-1953)
Connie Mack Stadium (1953-1976). National League Park, commonly referred to as the Baker Bowl after 1923, was a baseball stadium and home to the Philadelphia Phillies from 1887 until 1938, and first home field of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1933 to 1935.
Is there a box score available for this game?
It's available online.
Baseball Reference has it. Go to Atlanta Braves. Under "franchise pages" go to the 1935 season.
His last game was actually May 30, 1935.
We know.
Didn't he hit two homers in one of these last games?
Maybe you're referring to the game on May 25, 1935 against the Pirates. www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT193505250.shtml
Then why do they say the game in philly was his last?
@@BobbyJackShow yep you're right. I read he hit three Homers and drove 6 runs in a loss vs Pittsburgh. The Babe played 6 more games but didn't record another hit
@@andrewpotok2661 His last professional game was at Philly of May 30, 1935 after just 1 at bat.
@@BobbyJackShow Three HRs, and his team still lost.
If my kid today, the babe would be swinging at two, gold club by 3, personal trainer by 8, diet, private home schooling, video virtual winter precision hitting clinics, strength and conditioning coaches, dieticians, chef, agent by high school! Traveling circus act baseball only competitor. From the youngest age possible. Body building, growing up being coached by Bruce bochy, its difficult for me, to tolerate the peeps with the "in his day" utterances. Just ridiculous. Big daddy, ohtani, Ruth on roids, benching 350, running 10ks!!! Cross training.
The Babe according to my dad, who watched hom in Biston as a,Yankee said he'd eat 25 hot dogs a game and a 5th if booze, despite the Prohibition. Also some cigars. No roids and still whacked them better than anyone. He didn't take care of himself, and neither did The Mick. Gerhig was a tragedy.
PETE ROSE IS A LOSER. HE GAMBLED HIS LIFE AWAY FROM BASEBALL. SO SAD CAUSE HE COULD. PLAY THE GAME, CHARLIE HUSTLE WITH NO COMMEN SENSE. A SHAME !!!!!!!!
True, but this is a video about Babe Ruth, not Rose.
Dumbest Braves uniforms ever.
I'm surprised they even had uniforms. The franchise was on the verge of bankruptcy. Some a lot of unfulfilled promises and outright lies convinced Babe to sign with them out of desperation.
Love the Babe!!! The greatest ever play the game!!! And if ANYONE deserves to have their number retired throughout all of baseball it's Babe!!! Before ANYONE else!!! Why has this not happened? Because he's too white??? Step up MLB n do the RIGHT thing!!!!!!!
Best Baseball Player Ever is......... Pete Rose.