The Babe is wearing a righthanded catcher's mitt. Many viewers have noted my error in the comments. I mistakenly thought he had glove on his right hand.
I remember about 30 years ago a sports writer stated that Ruth would only hit .250 facing the current pitchers. This angered another writer saying Ruth had a career BA of .342 and hit 714 HR. The first writer said you got to understand, he’d be 95 years old.
That was Ty Cobb who said that. Someone asked him what he thought he wilould hit in today’s game. He said about .270. And he asked why, advent of slider? Greater velocity? No. Because I’m 70 years okd
My father, born in 1919 in Vermont, was a huge Yankee fan growing up. He found himself standing next to Ruth on a NY subway in 47. No one was making a fuss about him, so he couldn't bring himself to say anything to him. Ruth was dead in a year and my dad regretted not saying something to him his whole life.
Wow, and he was a baseball Yankee fan??.....I retired from Homeland Security working out of a local international airport. I ran across many baseball players/football/basketball....I'm a huge Indians fans..and I always had to get in a conversation with my heroes when I saw them!!:-)
That's the nature of the subway, you have those random encounters that are better left unacknowledged, especially when a celebrity is involved. Babe probably would've appreciated just being left alone for the ride. Your dad could've taken some solace in that
6'2 was taller then than it is now. he weighed 180 when he came up and didnt pass 210 until he was 30 years old. he looked like a formidable athlete in the 19-teens, and was a feared fist-fighter until the 30s. he mastered cricket from one explanation of the rules. he golfed until near death. he was tested by physiologists to be abnormal to super-human in reaction time, reflexes, and hand-eye coordination. athletes in the age of "supplements" would look just as weird to people from the 1920s, as ruth looks to younger people today. it was well into the 1960s before writers began pointing out that ruth didnt look like an athlete. in his time there was no particular look that society assumed they should have.
Exactly. The average height for a male in the U.S. was 5-7 in 1920. It is 5-10 today. Ruth's swing was so violent, so loopy, and the bat so heavy, it took extraordinary talent to bat .340 and never strikeout 100 times. He was extraordinary for his time.
The fact that you brought up cricket is interesting because Babe Ruth might’ve gotten his swing entirely from cricket. Look at his odd (for baseball) load mechanics compared to a cricket swing. They are identical.
@@C____K no his baseball career was nearly over when he was shown cricket. some myth exists that he copied joe jackson's swing, this is also false. its plainly evident that whatever went into his "training" for baseball took place at st. mary's with brother mathias.
This was just *FANTASTIC*!!! That swing at the 5:00 mark was the best footage of his swing and contact that I believe I've ever seen. I had to slow that down all the way and rewatch it like 5 times in a row. It'd be something else to see him pitch just a full inning with the footage being from behind. Thanks for sharing this. :O)
I live nearby a Ballpark called Muzzy field. This park is in Bristol Connecticut and it is where the first-ever recorded home run that Babe Ruth hit. His number is on the right-field wall.
OPS Ruth, Gehrig and Ted Williams top the lists New stats show how amazing the old time sluggers really were. My dad got to see him play in the 1920s - amazing!
One of the results of Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built, was the introduction of uniform numbers. Fans were too far away to be able to identify players. Everyone knew Babe but who were the other guys?
His parents put him up for adoption when he was seven years old because he was troublesome kid. How much trouble can a seven year old kid get into? I mean seriously. What could he have done that was so terrible, so incorrigible? He later said that his mother never came to visit him at the orphanage - not once! That is really terrible. Poor little kid.
Yep. He said he was too big and ugly to get visitors. His parents sucked. Odd thing is, he must've reconciled with his Dad, because he tended bar in Dad's saloon while he was already a big leaguer. The two George Ruth's looked startlingly alike.
Ah man. That wasn't good. Are there any pics of his Mom? I see a couple comments down someone mentioned Babe and his dad looked alike, wonder about his Mom?
Good to see someone touch on his pitching record, but I'd add a few point. 1. If his last 14 years were on the mound, he would have made the HOF anyway. 2. As a pitcher, Ruth hit more HRs than he gave up while pitching. 3. He started about 150 games and COMPLETED about140 of them, racking up a Win Pct of about 63%. You will not see 140 complete games for this entire decade.
Always bugs me when people compare he and Williams and people cite Ted's lost seasons at war. But nobody mentions that Ruth was a pitcher and didn't start hitting full time till 1920. Yes, Williams would have hit a lot of homeruns in the seasons he lost. Maybe he gets to 714. But the record would have been a lot higher than 714 if Ruth had been hitting full-time from the beginning.
@@username-zj9id Agree. He is in a class by himself. He used an unbelievably heavy bat, and swung so hard, he'd lose balance or even fall if he missed. He once said - if all I was doing is trying to hit singles, I'd bat .600. I believe him. lol
@@Malcolm.Y I think a lot of casual fans would be surprised to know his career BA was. 342, only 2 points below Williams. That kind of Average with his power is astounding
As a Yankee he only hit .349 with 659 homers in 15 years and what most don't realize is after his disaster 1925 when he was suspected of having VD and only hitting .290 with 25 homers, he was 30 and at a crossroads. He could continue to fall or he could get his act together. Well from 1926 to 1932 at age 31 to 37, Ruth hit 343 homers in 7 years or 49 a year in a 154 game schedule. He only hit 41 homers in 1932 playing in 133 games so from 1926 to 1931 he hit 302 homers or over 50 a year. Then was Babe Ruth clutch? First he set a WS record with 29.67 scoreless innings as a Red Sox pitcher in 1916 and 1918 allowing a run in the first in 1916 and then throwing 13 scoreless innings winning in the 14th inning. In 1918 he threw a complete game shutout and then 4 days later started again and threw 7 score less innings before the Cubs scored 2 in the 8th. He won all 3 of his WS Starts going 3-0 with a 0.87 era throwing 31 innings in 3 starts! Then in the 1923, 26, 27, 28, and 32 WS he won 4 of the 5 series and over 85 at bats had 34 hits for a .400 average with 14 homers and 25 ribbies. Look at those obscene numbers in the World Series as a pitcher and hitter! In 10 World Series, he won 7 times! Nobody was close to Babe Ruth and he had years where he out homered all the teams save a few.
Lol, the closest thing to Ruth at the time was the guy batting behind him in the lineup. We will never see a one two punch like Ruth/Gehrig ever again.
@@snerdterguson Very true, their numbers were amazing. Occasionally they would ask DiMaggio what Gehrig was like and I'd love that to get a small flavor on Lou. The Yankees were scum, first they didn't give the Babe a job and then they didn't give Lou a job when he was dying and we wonder why the players make what they make today. The utter abuse of the players led to Marvin Miller in 1966 and today the most powerful union in sports.
@@snerdterguson you could make the argument that the 2 greatest hitters of all time played for the same team, at the same time, and hit back to back in time batting order. I mean what are the odds.
@@username-zj9id I always thought how did Gehrig drive in so many runs when Ruth was driving in a run every 3.79 at bats? Can you imagine the Yankees on base average in those years and they had 1000+ run teams in 30 to 32 if I remember. Over 1000 runs in 154 games. Almost 7 runs a game!
The most gifted baseball player in the history of the game; the babe was a freak talent. If he would have taken care of his body, and stayed in shape, his numbers would have been absolutely incredible.
God blessed him because he had a big heart..Have you ever seen any athlete since Babe love children & give back to them like he did? I think not. God was pleased...
Somebody said Ruth had "a face like a happy catcher's mitt". I wish we had a stronger image of Ruth as a young man, when he was all big hands, lean and hungry. (I've written a novel now with an agent; stay tuned.) Ballplayers didn't talk about him for his pitching first, nor his hitting: guys heard about the kid who could eat more of anything than they'd ever seen.
I love his willingness to be available to the fans. I believe that's where all sports are losing their fans. Sports have lost the kids and more interested in the parents for the money.
I don't think he look ordinary early on. You see film of him in high school or Boston and he's looks pretty formidable next to the other players. He was tall, stocky, and strong
The Babe hit home runs in a stadium much larger than the one Hank played in. I love Hank, but Hank hit home runs in a park that was 100 feet shorter than Yankee Stadium. Also, Babe Ruth did not take drugs like the so-called home run king of today. Give me Babe. The greatest player in baseball history.
I'm sure players back then we're on substances too; just maybe not roids. Listen to stories of old musicians doing drugs and stuff. What makes you think they were clean back then?
Babe Ruth was 6'2" and 215 pounds when people were much smaller on average than they are in 2022. He probably looked like a giant when he walked into a room.
At 0:56 it is said that Ruth is sporting a lefthanded catcher's mitt and that it is "uncommon in our time". It is technically a lefthanded catcher's mitt in that it goes on the left hand, but it was primarily for a righthanded person, of course, and contrary to the video, is not uncommon. Why it is on Ruth's throwing hand, I do not know.
I hate hearing people of today denigrating the Babe ab=nd his accomplishments for a host of reasons. He was clearly the most dominant baseball player EVER and changed the game. This can be said of only one other sports figure being Wilt Chamberlain. Both men dominated their sports in a way no others have done.
In response to the people comparing babe ruth era to playing in today's game....it doesn't matter cuz you're talking about him 90 years later. You just can't compare the game today to how it was then. He was the best of his era. There will be other great ones, now in the present day and in the future. But he was the first superstar and made the game what it is today, and that's it.
Until Shohei Ohtani, no other major league player ever produced at both hitting and pitching like Babe Ruth. If he had stuck to pitching, Ruth might have gone down as the greatest pitcher of all time and we'd be calling it the "Babe Ruth Award" instead of the Cy Young Award.
Years ago in Calif I met the great No 19, Johnny Unitas. He may have been the greatest QB ever, they say he never lost a game, he only ran out of time. He was only 5-10, looked so normal, so human yet he could take hits then get up bloody and shakes it off. RIP Johnny
In 1927 the Yanks had the top three HR hitters in the AL. 1. Babe 60 2. Lou Gehrig 47 3. Tony Lazzeri 18! Ruth damn near topped the #2 & 3 guys himself!
The pool of players back then was significantly smaller and cy williams, roger hornsby, hack wilson and bob meusel all had season where they put up more homeruns then prime babe ruth.
Don't pay so much attention to the false idols as they have dragged down many people before. Detach from this world and the things in it to focus on God. The world is headed towards damnation. Contemplate how the Roman Empire has fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 from 538-1798 AD. Revelation 17 and history confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future/make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years of human history or C) History we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to save you, for if you believed in Him you would also follow Him and obey His commands- Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 ESV. If you have any questions about scripture feel free to ask me
@@noels6010 what are you talking about? Babe had a 60 home run season in 27 that stood until Maris broke it in 61 and that record stood for almost 40 years. None of those guys ever had better yearly home run stats
God bless America's past time and the game of baseball.as a troubled young boy.it was baseball which gave him direction.and the rest is baseball history. The Bambino..the sultan of swat.. semper fi..
Not only a great hitter,but a great knuckleball pitcher as well.One year he went 13-7 on the mound for Boston.A relative of my wife met him in Halifax Nova Scotia at a fair a few years before he passed.She was awed by his presence and kindness to the children who begged for his autograph.No kid went home without his baseball autographed.He was that kind of man.✌️
great perspective you've shared. Reminds me of my favorite Sports Quote when in 1993 David Letterman asked Phillies slugger John Kruk how an Athlete like him could drink all that Beer, to which Krukie responded: "I'm a Baseball Player, not an Athlete"
this is how special a BATTER Babe Ruth was. Think about it in his era of baseball. You could do spit balls. You could scuff a ball. You could discolor the ball. You had for pitchers an improved pitchers mound that benefited the pitchers throwing angle. ** pitchers mounds were changed in the 1960's because of pitchers having such an advantage over Batters. BOB GIBSON RULE changed baseball. Yet, Babe Ruth slugged away against them all using all the tools of their arsenal. Which included pitches we call today illegal pitches. He had to read them all, and hit them all, screwballs, spit balls, scuffed balls, etc. Then check out his batting average. Not bad for batting against every conceivable pitch that could be thrown at him. I admire the man, because regardless of era, baseball is still, throwing the ball, and the hitter hitting the ball. All the fancy mechanics, diet, off season training. Don't mean squat when you stand up to the plate and swing. Baseball is about statistics and averages, and skill to connect the bat to the ball. Babe Ruth could without a doubt swing in any era against any pitcher and equally do his damage to the ball. Now, you can and could make the argument about Ruth not facing Negro League pitchers. That's fair to say. But, in Ruth's time of baseball. The best of the best athletes if they wanted to make Pro Sports money played baseball. There was no NFL, there was no NBA, there was only BASEBALL. So the best pitchers regardless of race played baseball. There was only a handful of teams. So even amongst baseball teams there was only a select few players to play in the Major League. If you didn't produce, you were gone. Like I say, Babe Ruth never played in any Divisional Major League games against Negro League Players. But play between the two may have had some impact on batting but the fact is and was, Babe Ruth pounded all pitchers regularly. He had an eye on hitting.
Nice analysis. He lived about ten minutes from me when he was with Red Sox, in Sudbury, Massachusetts. And frequented taverns, visited with kids playing baseball, etc in my town of Marlborough, Massachusetts
And reports from the many exhibition games with the Negro Leaguers indicate that he played at the same level against them. Some thought he might be a black man passing for white.
@@syourke3 There was a grandfathering in of at least the spitnball, meaning that if you threw it before you were still allowed to throw it, but new players could not.
Ruth was a wonderful man. He had an unbridled childish enthusiasm for everything in life because in such a short period of time he went from HARD times in youth straight to the BEST of times living a life we mortals could only dream of. He married the first woman he met. He picked cigars off the ground to smoke them. He used anyone’s toothbrush was handy. He drank beer and ate hot dogs just like the fans did who came to watch. He was the first player to not fear the strikeout because as he said, “it only takes one to hit it.” He was a magical figure the likes of which we’ve had nary of glimpse since he played. People should also realize that most of the film we see of him is in the later years of his career. That photos shown in this video of him on his school team and then as a pitcher in Boston really offer a look at the unique and gifted physique he did indeed possess in youth. He looks VERY strong and indeed he was, possessing the best fastball of any lefty in the game until a decade after he had stopped pitching and Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove exploded onto the scene with the Athletics. Ruth even pitched again at the end of his career for the Yankees and pitched extremely well, albeit in a small dose. People today REALLY need to stop saying that Ohtani is the new Babe Ruth or worse, that Ruth was the prototype Ohtani. With all due respect to the wonderful player Shohei is, we have yet to see him be the best pitcher in the league for even a season, nor has he led the game in HRs TWELVE times. If he has a season with half the 9 shutouts Ruth had in 1916 I’ll say it’s on par for at least the season. Drop me a line when he hits 60 HRs please. If the dodgers get to the WS a couple of times, it’ll give him the chance to have a 3 HR game… twice.
I enjoyed reading your remarks. Ruth was so exceptional it's hard for us to understand how much he changed the game and how exceptional he was. Strikeouts are so commonplace in our time, it's difficult to appreciate an era when hitters felt ashamed and humiliated by the event. Ruth, as you said, was uttlerly unafraid to strike out. I'll get my pitch next time...
There are some glaring inaccuracies in Bawden's take on Babe Ruth. First, St. Mary's industrial school was neither an orphanage nor a home for delinquents. Second, it's ludicrous to compare athletes from years ago to those of today. Jesse Owens wouldn't qualify for a 100-meter final today, but that's no reason to denigrate the man. As for Ruth looking 'ordinary,' how many baseball players in 1920 were 6'2"? Not many I can tell you. Bottom line. Ruth had more impact on his sport and in such a short time span than anyone else I can think of in any sport. Period.
Babe Ruth was the first great sports superstar. He was the template for all other sports superstars to follow, from Mickey Mantle to Arnold Palmer, from Pete Rose to Michael Jordan, from Wayne Gretzky to Tom Brady. Sure, there ere other great players when he played, but no other player had the charisma and connected with the fans quite like George Herman Ruth.
I wonder if Ruth was actually a few years older than reported. Sure, people looked older then (rough lives), but in ruth's case I just wonder. The power came from his hips. His tork was unreal.
The way he spun around when he had a strike ( I think) cause he did use a huge bat ,the thing was a war club and when you missed it just spun out of control! But he was a GOAT!!
Don't pay so much attention to the false idols as they have dragged down many people before. Detach from this world and the things in it to focus on God. The world is headed towards damnation. Contemplate how the Roman Empire has fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 from 538-1798 AD. Revelation 17 and history confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future/make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years of human history or C) History we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to save you, for if you believed in Him you would also follow Him and obey His commands- Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 ESV. If you have any questions about scripture feel free to ask me
@@dcasper8514 I WAS 11 & GOIN CRAZY OVER BASEBALL & RED SOX & TED WILLIAMS. ON A FARM IN NH WHERE WE USED ROCKS FROM A STONE WALL FOR BASES IN A COW PASTURE, LUCKY IF WE HAD 4 or 5 to PLAY. BUT...I DO NOT RECALL THAT SAD DAY...SHAME ON ME. Be Well
I met a guy in a retirement community a few years back. He was an Italian fellow who said he had met Babe Ruth when he was a kid. Supposedly Ruth traveled through his neighborhood somewhat regularly. The man said that upon getting to shake Ruth's hand, he urinated on himself, to which Ruth said something like "don't do that again". The man said Ruth was a fantastic guy, who made people laugh and feel good. So, I guess getting called out for peeing your pants in front of the Babe was even a wonderful experience. If only we could all have such a way with people.
maybe I'm not seeing what your seeing but at 0:58 it is a right handed catchers glove... yes, its on his left hand but that would make it a right handers glove which is normal for a catcher. but with him being left handed its kind of a strange picture how they set it up lol mostly everybody else has there gloves on their catching hand.
If he took better care of himself, he could have had at least another productive three years. His fun affect that the Tube lauds, went against him when he tried to get the job he wanted the most - Major League manager.
I liked babe Ruth I also liked the old uniforms they wore actually I am a long time fan of the California Angels who finally won the world series in 2002 wow they hit the winning run to outfielder who dropped the baseball then lost it again before he threw it in. Angels won 3-2
Anybody interested iin learning more about Ruth and baseball in that era would be well served by reading Bill Jenkinson's book on Ruth. Don't be put off by the title. It was forced on Jenkinson by the publisher.
And Hank Aaron went to bat 2800 more times than Babe to hit the same amount of home runs which means his batting records have really never been broken.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth (THE GREAT BAMBINO!). He looks ordinary yes, but at the same time, knowing who he was, he really does look ordinarily extraordinary!!! He really was, "less than a God, but more than a man", as Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez explained.
-I grew up in the '70's - at that time, Babe Ruth was widely considered to be, the best baseball ⚾ player, to have ever lived - is that still the case today, in 2022 ??
Ruth was a great player but keep in mind, Yankee stadium was 295 down the right field line and 350 to right when he played there. Talk about a short porch. Yikes! this no doubt padded his stats. It would be interesting to see how many of his home runs were hit at home compared to away.
@@ThekiBoran In those days those city stadiums had very irregular designs. One would have to look at each stadium of that time and get the outfield fence distances to each field. Good luck with that.
Once Ruth started as a full time hitter he would average throughout the rest of his career 43 HR 131 RBI at a .347 batting average. Just imagine if those first 5 years he didnt pitch and instead was a full time hitter, he would have easily 175 more home runs maybe 200+ and he would be well into first all time RBI leader, and prob into the top 10 all time hits leaders.
it's scary to think how good ruth would have been if he had taken better care of himself, i think those wild swings were for show, he knew the camera was on him and babe was a big ham. his swing has been analyzed and it's about as good as it gets, level thru the zone, he may have struck out a lot, but he always had a great batting average along with all those home runs.
His strikeout rate is actually pretty good, especially when you adding his walk rate. He struck out in 12.5% of his plate appearances but walked in 19.4%. Contrast that with one of the guys today who is hardest to strikeout, Jose Ramirez, who strikes out in 11.9% of his plate appearances and walks in 10.2%.
@@DanielSong39 As a Red fan (don't follow it anymore) I can speak for myself *AND MANY OTHERS* in saying that he was just terrible when you put together everything that a position player should be. Sometimes it was down right embarrassing. IMO.
No steroids, dead ball and still considered one if the best ever to actually play the game. Hank Aron, the home run king also no steroids, dead ball one of the best to play the game. No kneeling or worrying about who's black who's white. Play ball.
No steroids in Aaron area but lots of the players did "speed" or greenies as they were called. Although steroids were around in the early sixties. I am not saying they were used but they existed. They were not as sophisticated as the ones are today. I mean John Mcenroe, of all people admitted to doing steroids.
The Babe is wearing a righthanded catcher's mitt. Many viewers have noted my error in the comments. I mistakenly thought he had glove on his right hand.
I remember about 30 years ago a sports writer stated that Ruth would only hit .250 facing the current pitchers. This angered another writer saying Ruth had a career BA of .342 and hit 714 HR. The first writer said you got to understand, he’d be 95 years old.
Imagine a guy with Ruth's natural gifts today who used modern nutrition and training know-how.
Ruth understood the game as a pitcher and a slugger. He'd do find in today's game... as either/or.
That was Ty Cobb who said that. Someone asked him what he thought he wilould hit in today’s game. He said about .270. And he asked why, advent of slider? Greater velocity? No. Because I’m 70 years okd
I believe when Cobb said it, he added at least one word that started with F. Lol
@@snerdterguson He was not genteel.
My father, born in 1919 in Vermont, was a huge Yankee fan growing up. He found himself standing next to Ruth on a NY subway in 47. No one was making a fuss about him, so he couldn't bring himself to say anything to him. Ruth was dead in a year and my dad regretted not saying something to him his whole life.
Wow, and he was a baseball Yankee fan??.....I retired from Homeland Security working out of a local international airport. I ran across many baseball players/football/basketball....I'm a huge Indians fans..and I always had to get in a conversation with my heroes when I saw them!!:-)
That's the nature of the subway, you have those random encounters that are better left unacknowledged, especially when a celebrity is involved. Babe probably would've appreciated just being left alone for the ride. Your dad could've taken some solace in that
@@aaa-fv3xk True..considering he was dying of cancer by then anyway....
@@brucetowell3432 Either way, it sounds like your father had a great heart, much like the Babe
@@aaa-fv3xk LOL, thanks but you are confusing me, with the poster, it's Tom Laramie, not me:-)
100 years later we’re still watching videos about him.
So true
6'2 was taller then than it is now. he weighed 180 when he came up and didnt pass 210 until he was 30 years old. he looked like a formidable athlete in the 19-teens, and was a feared fist-fighter until the 30s. he mastered cricket from one explanation of the rules. he golfed until near death. he was tested by physiologists to be abnormal to super-human in reaction time, reflexes, and hand-eye coordination. athletes in the age of "supplements" would look just as weird to people from the 1920s, as ruth looks to younger people today. it was well into the 1960s before writers began pointing out that ruth didnt look like an athlete. in his time there was no particular look that society assumed they should have.
Exactly. The average height for a male in the U.S. was 5-7 in 1920. It is 5-10 today. Ruth's swing was so violent, so loopy, and the bat so heavy, it took extraordinary talent to bat .340 and never strikeout 100 times. He was extraordinary for his time.
The fact that you brought up cricket is interesting because Babe Ruth might’ve gotten his swing entirely from cricket. Look at his odd (for baseball) load mechanics compared to a cricket swing. They are identical.
@@C____K no his baseball career was nearly over when he was shown cricket. some myth exists that he copied joe jackson's swing, this is also false. its plainly evident that whatever went into his "training" for baseball took place at st. mary's with brother mathias.
Didn't pass 210. Were you his doctor? You don't know this lol
@@C____K All I can think of now is the cricket scene in King Ralph, featuring John Goodman who also played The Babe.
The footage of him comforting that boy and then cheering him on is so heartening. Thank you for posting this.
This was just *FANTASTIC*!!! That swing at the 5:00 mark was the best footage of his swing and contact that I believe I've ever seen. I had to slow that down all the way and rewatch it like 5 times in a row. It'd be something else to see him pitch just a full inning with the footage being from behind. Thanks for sharing this. :O)
Hey man, these videos are great. Well produced, and your narrating is perfect. Keep it up!
Really enjoyed this. Voiceover kept me engaged, and just a great in/out video.
Thanks!
Thanks for the positive feedback. I appreciate it!
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Great stuff. This one in particular, given the history of the Babe in my locale....
During WW2 the Japanese were known to yell to he'll with Babe Ruth LOL. CANT get more famous or infamous then that, ? Love the video.
I live nearby a Ballpark called Muzzy field. This park is in Bristol Connecticut and it is where the first-ever recorded home run that Babe Ruth hit. His number is on the right-field wall.
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Ruth, Gehrig and Ted Williams top the lists
New stats show how amazing the old time sluggers really were.
My dad got to see him play in the 1920s - amazing!
One of the results of Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built, was the introduction of uniform numbers. Fans were too far away to be able to identify players. Everyone knew Babe but who were the other guys?
His parents put him up for adoption when he was seven years old because he was troublesome kid. How much trouble can a seven year old kid get into? I mean seriously. What could he have done that was so terrible, so incorrigible? He later said that his mother never came to visit him at the orphanage - not once! That is really terrible. Poor little kid.
Yep. He said he was too big and ugly to get visitors. His parents sucked. Odd thing is, he must've reconciled with his Dad, because he tended bar in Dad's saloon while he was already a big leaguer. The two George Ruth's looked startlingly alike.
@@TheBatugan77 He was the spitting image of his father. Still, I think its appalling that they dumped him out when he was seven years old.
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if it wont for his parents doing that he may of never played base all fuck his pos parents
Ah man. That wasn't good. Are there any pics of his Mom? I see a couple comments down someone mentioned Babe and his dad looked alike, wonder about his Mom?
Good to see someone touch on his pitching record, but I'd add a few point.
1. If his last 14 years were on the mound, he would have made the HOF anyway.
2. As a pitcher, Ruth hit more HRs than he gave up while pitching.
3. He started about 150 games and COMPLETED about140 of them, racking up a Win Pct of about 63%. You will not see 140 complete games for this entire decade.
You speak the truth.
The scoreless innings record I always read was 29 2/3 innings, unless they revised it sometime.
Always bugs me when people compare he and Williams and people cite Ted's lost seasons at war. But nobody mentions that Ruth was a pitcher and didn't start hitting full time till 1920. Yes, Williams would have hit a lot of homeruns in the seasons he lost. Maybe he gets to 714. But the record would have been a lot higher than 714 if Ruth had been hitting full-time from the beginning.
@@username-zj9id Agree. He is in a class by himself.
He used an unbelievably heavy bat, and swung so hard, he'd lose balance or even fall if he missed. He once said - if all I was doing is trying to hit singles, I'd bat .600.
I believe him. lol
@@Malcolm.Y I think a lot of casual fans would be surprised to know his career BA was. 342, only 2 points below Williams. That kind of Average with his power is astounding
He the greatest to ever player the game there will never be another bambino .
As a Yankee he only hit .349 with 659 homers in 15 years and what most don't realize is after his disaster 1925 when he was suspected of having VD and only hitting .290 with 25 homers, he was 30 and at a crossroads. He could continue to fall or he could get his act together. Well from 1926 to 1932 at age 31 to 37, Ruth hit 343 homers in 7 years or 49 a year in a 154 game schedule. He only hit 41 homers in 1932 playing in 133 games so from 1926 to 1931 he hit 302 homers or over 50 a year.
Then was Babe Ruth clutch?
First he set a WS record with 29.67 scoreless innings as a Red Sox pitcher in 1916 and 1918 allowing a run in the first in 1916 and then throwing 13 scoreless innings winning in the 14th inning. In 1918 he threw a complete game shutout and then 4 days later started again and threw 7 score less innings before the Cubs scored 2 in the 8th. He won all 3 of his WS Starts going 3-0 with a 0.87 era throwing 31 innings in 3 starts!
Then in the 1923, 26, 27, 28, and 32 WS he won 4 of the 5 series and over 85 at bats had 34 hits for a .400 average with 14 homers and 25 ribbies.
Look at those obscene numbers in the World Series as a pitcher and hitter! In 10 World Series, he won 7 times!
Nobody was close to Babe Ruth and he had years where he out homered all the teams save a few.
Lol, the closest thing to Ruth at the time was the guy batting behind him in the lineup. We will never see a one two punch like Ruth/Gehrig ever again.
@@snerdterguson Very true, their numbers were amazing. Occasionally they would ask DiMaggio what Gehrig was like and I'd love that to get a small flavor on Lou. The Yankees were scum, first they didn't give the Babe a job and then they didn't give Lou a job when he was dying and we wonder why the players make what they make today. The utter abuse of the players led to Marvin Miller in 1966 and today the most powerful union in sports.
@@snerdterguson you could make the argument that the 2 greatest hitters of all time played for the same team, at the same time, and hit back to back in time batting order. I mean what are the odds.
@@username-zj9id I always thought how did Gehrig drive in so many runs when Ruth was driving in a run every 3.79 at bats? Can you imagine the Yankees on base average in those years and they had 1000+ run teams in 30 to 32 if I remember. Over 1000 runs in 154 games. Almost 7 runs a game!
@@jacksmith5692 yeah, it's nuts. Ruth and Gehrig had several seasons where they had 300+ RBI between them. An insane number for 2 guys
The most gifted baseball player in the history of the game; the babe was a freak talent. If he would have taken care of his body, and stayed in shape, his numbers would have been absolutely incredible.
...incredibler...
We no longer have Ruth but we do have Shohei Ohtani.
God blessed him because he had a big heart..Have you ever seen any athlete since Babe love children & give back to them like he did? I think not. God was pleased...
Somebody said Ruth had "a face like a happy catcher's mitt".
I wish we had a stronger image of Ruth as a young man, when he was all big hands, lean and hungry. (I've written a novel now with an agent; stay tuned.)
Ballplayers didn't talk about him for his pitching first, nor his hitting: guys heard about the kid who could eat more of anything than they'd ever seen.
ooo, we are all gonna wait for your relevation....ooo, ooo....how much are ya gonna tarnish him?huh?
Thank you for this video! Simply amazing the ability the man had.
Very nicely put together. Thanks for putting it up, prof!
Awesome short on Ruth. Amazing statistics
I love his willingness to be available to the fans. I believe that's where all sports are losing their fans. Sports have lost the kids and more interested in the parents for the money.
I don't think he look ordinary early on. You see film of him in high school or Boston and he's looks pretty formidable next to the other players. He was tall, stocky, and strong
What is often overlooked is the fact that Ruth probably would have gone into the Hall of Fame as a pitcher had he not moved to the outfield.
lol how can it be overlooked when it's brought up everytime Babe Ruth is mentioned? Get over yourself.
@@juliebraden6911 You might consider doing the same.
@@juliebraden6911 shove it
The Babe hit home runs in a stadium much larger than the one Hank played in. I love Hank, but Hank hit home runs in a park that was 100 feet shorter than Yankee Stadium. Also, Babe Ruth did not take drugs like the so-called home run king of today. Give me Babe. The greatest player in baseball history.
Yankee Stadium was 296 down the right field line.
And the upper deck hung out over the field.
I'm sure players back then we're on substances too; just maybe not roids.
Listen to stories of old musicians doing drugs and stuff. What makes you think they were clean back then?
Good grief. Idiots.
@@romanclay1913 it was the same for every player
Babe Ruth was 6'2" and 215 pounds when people were much smaller on average than they are in 2022.
He probably looked like a giant when he walked into a room.
At 0:56 it is said that Ruth is sporting a lefthanded catcher's mitt and that it is "uncommon in our time". It is technically a lefthanded catcher's mitt in that it goes on the left hand, but it was primarily for a righthanded person, of course, and contrary to the video, is not uncommon. Why it is on Ruth's throwing hand, I do not know.
Great video 👏👏👏💃💃 please keep them coming
I hate hearing people of today denigrating the Babe ab=nd his accomplishments for a host of reasons. He was clearly the most dominant baseball player EVER and changed the game. This can be said of only one other sports figure being Wilt Chamberlain. Both men dominated their sports in a way no others have done.
I agree. I might also add Wayne Gretzky.
Donald Bradman
Great stuff ! Thanks luv the Babe! And all the old players!
In response to the people comparing babe ruth era to playing in today's game....it doesn't matter cuz you're talking about him 90 years later. You just can't compare the game today to how it was then. He was the best of his era. There will be other great ones, now in the present day and in the future. But he was the first superstar and made the game what it is today, and that's it.
Until Shohei Ohtani, no other major league player ever produced at both hitting and pitching like Babe Ruth. If he had stuck to pitching, Ruth might have gone down as the greatest pitcher of all time and we'd be calling it the "Babe Ruth Award" instead of the Cy Young Award.
Years ago in Calif I met the great No 19, Johnny Unitas. He may have been the greatest QB ever, they say he never lost a game, he only ran out of time. He was only 5-10, looked so normal, so human yet he could take hits then get up bloody and shakes it off. RIP Johnny
He was actually in excellent shape as a Red Sox and early in his Yankee career!
It was the hot dogs.
Not sure whether it was the case for Ruth, but many sluggers intentionally put on weight because it gave them more power
@@DanielSong39 Part if it is probably the aging process also. Many athletes get bigger and stronger as they get older.
@@DanielSong39 Shaq did the same thing
To the people that say it was so much easier back then for a guy like Ruth I always ask, "Why didn't anyone else have those numbers then?"
In 1927 the Yanks had the top three HR hitters in the AL.
1. Babe 60
2. Lou Gehrig 47
3. Tony Lazzeri 18!
Ruth damn near topped the #2 & 3 guys himself!
The pool of players back then was significantly smaller and cy williams, roger hornsby, hack wilson and bob meusel all had season where they put up more homeruns then prime babe ruth.
Don't pay so much attention to the false idols as they have dragged down many people before. Detach from this world and the things in it to focus on God. The world is headed towards damnation. Contemplate how the Roman Empire has fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 from 538-1798 AD. Revelation 17 and history confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future/make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years of human history or C) History we know it is fake.
You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to save you, for if you believed in Him you would also follow Him and obey His commands- Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 ESV. If you have any questions about scripture feel free to ask me
Wow, you really showed that strawman who's boss.
@@noels6010 what are you talking about?
Babe had a 60 home run season in 27 that stood until Maris broke it in 61 and that record stood for almost 40 years. None of those guys ever had better yearly home run stats
God bless America's past time and the game of baseball.as a troubled young boy.it was baseball which gave him direction.and the rest is baseball history. The Bambino..the sultan of swat.. semper fi..
Babe was such a natural in front of the camera.
Not only a great hitter,but a great knuckleball pitcher as well.One year he went 13-7 on the mound for Boston.A relative of my wife met him in Halifax Nova Scotia at a fair a few years before he passed.She was awed by his presence and kindness to the children who begged for his autograph.No kid went home without his baseball autographed.He was that kind of man.✌️
Wow..Babe Ruth...The greatest of all times....We need more Babe Ruths today..What do you think his paycheck would be if The Babe were playing today?
Today he would own the Yankees.
RUclips needs more great content like this. LOTS more!
great perspective you've shared. Reminds me of my favorite Sports Quote when in 1993 David Letterman asked Phillies slugger John Kruk how an Athlete like him could drink all that Beer, to which Krukie responded: "I'm a Baseball Player, not an Athlete"
This is probably the best film where you actually see Ruth hit the ball from behind like a catcher and what a sound that made on the hit crackkkkk…
Exceptional mini-documentary!
Excellent video! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Babe Ruth is one of the few mythical historic athletes
a God givin talent like the other 👑 and both passed away on the 16 of August 😔🙏✝️🇺🇸😪 Goosebumps 🕺⚾️
He was a big man for the time.
The greatest American athlete, hands down, end of story.
this is how special a BATTER Babe Ruth was. Think about it in his era of baseball.
You could do spit balls.
You could scuff a ball.
You could discolor the ball.
You had for pitchers an improved pitchers mound that benefited the pitchers throwing angle.
** pitchers mounds were changed in the 1960's because of pitchers having such an advantage over Batters. BOB GIBSON RULE changed baseball.
Yet, Babe Ruth slugged away against them all using all the tools of their arsenal. Which included pitches we call today illegal pitches.
He had to read them all, and hit them all, screwballs, spit balls, scuffed balls, etc.
Then check out his batting average. Not bad for batting against every conceivable pitch that could be thrown at him.
I admire the man, because regardless of era, baseball is still, throwing the ball, and the hitter hitting the ball. All the fancy mechanics, diet, off season training. Don't mean squat when you stand up to the plate and swing. Baseball is about statistics and averages, and skill to connect the bat to the ball.
Babe Ruth could without a doubt swing in any era against any pitcher and equally do his damage to the ball. Now, you can and could make the argument about Ruth not facing Negro League pitchers. That's fair to say. But, in Ruth's time of baseball. The best of the best athletes if they wanted to make Pro Sports money played baseball. There was no NFL, there was no NBA, there was only BASEBALL. So the best pitchers regardless of race played baseball. There was only a handful of teams. So even amongst baseball teams there was only a select few players to play in the Major League. If you didn't produce, you were gone.
Like I say, Babe Ruth never played in any Divisional Major League games against Negro League Players. But play between the two may have had some impact on batting but the fact is and was, Babe Ruth pounded all pitchers regularly. He had an eye on hitting.
Nice analysis.
He lived about ten minutes from me when he was with Red Sox, in Sudbury, Massachusetts. And frequented taverns, visited with kids playing baseball, etc in my town of Marlborough, Massachusetts
And reports from the many exhibition games with the Negro Leaguers indicate that he played at the same level against them. Some thought he might be a black man passing for white.
Scuffing and discoloring balls and spitballs were outlawed in 1920 following the death of Ray Chapman.
@@syourke3 There was a grandfathering in of at least the spitnball, meaning that if you threw it before you were still allowed to throw it, but new players could not.
According to Buck O’Neil, Ruth took Satchel Paige deep in a barnstorming game.
Ruth's lifetime slugging average was better than Hank Aaron's best single season slugging average.
screw fank aaron. he couldnt carry Ruths' ' jockstrap
Wow, I didn't know that they dove head first into bases back then! I thought Pete Rose started that!
Baseball Royalty ⚾️
He looks like Mohammed Ali, a compliment! He passed away before I was born, but he was a hero to me!
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Babe Ruth, the entire reason why I love Baseball so much today. He’s a hero.
Nice video thanks!
Great video
Ruth was a wonderful man. He had an unbridled childish enthusiasm for everything in life because in such a short period of time he went from HARD times in youth straight to the BEST of times living a life we mortals could only dream of. He married the first woman he met. He picked cigars off the ground to smoke them. He used anyone’s toothbrush was handy. He drank beer and ate hot dogs just like the fans did who came to watch. He was the first player to not fear the strikeout because as he said, “it only takes one to hit it.” He was a magical figure the likes of which we’ve had nary of glimpse since he played.
People should also realize that most of the film we see of him is in the later years of his career. That photos shown in this video of him on his school team and then as a pitcher in Boston really offer a look at the unique and gifted physique he did indeed possess in youth. He looks VERY strong and indeed he was, possessing the best fastball of any lefty in the game until a decade after he had stopped pitching and Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove exploded onto the scene with the Athletics.
Ruth even pitched again at the end of his career for the Yankees and pitched extremely well, albeit in a small dose.
People today REALLY need to stop saying that Ohtani is the new Babe Ruth or worse, that Ruth was the prototype Ohtani. With all due respect to the wonderful player Shohei is, we have yet to see him be the best pitcher in the league for even a season, nor has he led the game in HRs TWELVE times. If he has a season with half the 9 shutouts Ruth had in 1916 I’ll say it’s on par for at least the season. Drop me a line when he hits 60 HRs please. If the dodgers get to the WS a couple of times, it’ll give him the chance to have a 3 HR game… twice.
I enjoyed reading your remarks. Ruth was so exceptional it's hard for us to understand how much he changed the game and how exceptional he was. Strikeouts are so commonplace in our time, it's difficult to appreciate an era when hitters felt ashamed and humiliated by the event. Ruth, as you said, was uttlerly unafraid to strike out. I'll get my pitch next time...
ohtani? comparing him to ruth??? HA HA HA HA HA HA
I love the Babe!
GREAT CHANNEL - PROFESSOR KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK...
Thanks, will do!
I note that he is sporting a right-handed catchers mitt which tells me 1 of 2 things he either caught right handed or it was a prop for a picture
I caught that also. He must have played catcher as a right hander.
There are some glaring inaccuracies in Bawden's take on Babe Ruth. First, St. Mary's industrial school was neither an orphanage nor a home for delinquents. Second, it's ludicrous to compare athletes from years ago to those of today. Jesse Owens wouldn't qualify for a 100-meter final today, but that's no reason to denigrate the man. As for Ruth looking 'ordinary,' how many baseball players in 1920 were 6'2"? Not many I can tell you. Bottom line. Ruth had more impact on his sport and in such a short time span than anyone else I can think of in any sport. Period.
Not a home for delinquents? What would you define a reform school as?
You must know that In Owens' day there were no such things as starting blocks and the track was not rubberized.
@@johnwayne9828 a school for young baseball players
He always seems like a good guy.
I like that version of Rhapsody in Blue
Still the greatest baseball ⚾️ player of all times 👍🏻
Babe Ruth was the first great sports superstar. He was the template for all other sports superstars to follow, from Mickey Mantle to Arnold Palmer, from Pete Rose to Michael Jordan, from Wayne Gretzky to Tom Brady. Sure, there ere other great players when he played, but no other player had the charisma and connected with the fans quite like George Herman Ruth.
I wonder if Ruth was actually a few years older than reported. Sure, people looked older then (rough lives), but in ruth's case I just wonder. The power came from his hips. His tork was unreal.
The way he spun around when he had a strike ( I think) cause he did use a huge bat ,the thing was a war club and when you missed it just spun out of control! But he was a GOAT!!
Babe Ruth looked like a TITAN what are you talking about?
In 1923, Yankee Stadium's right field line was 258'. In 1928 it was 295'.
Greatest ever.
Still the best ball player ever!
Good video
Babe Ruth the best baseball player ever to play the game
Don’t forget Ty Cobb. Late in his career he went for the home run and did well, But he was not a nice man.
why not?i think cobb was a GREAT man@@JRobbySh
Ruth must have had a visual acuity of around 20/10. No other explanation. The average in the majors today is around 20/13; for some it's 20/9.
I never knew he swung a bat like Happy Gilmour swung a golf club. Was that common for those times?
Ruth also sed the heaviest bat ever. Over 50 oz. That's a hunk of log.
He was a NATURAL! A born talent...
Don't pay so much attention to the false idols as they have dragged down many people before. Detach from this world and the things in it to focus on God. The world is headed towards damnation. Contemplate how the Roman Empire has fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 from 538-1798 AD. Revelation 17 and history confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future/make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years of human history or C) History we know it is fake.
You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to save you, for if you believed in Him you would also follow Him and obey His commands- Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 ESV. If you have any questions about scripture feel free to ask me
By that picture at 1:55, am I to understand a major league roster included a total of 18 players in 1918?
He looks kind and gentle.
well done, excellent !
I MARVEL AT HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS!! I AM 85..
Do you remember the newspaper's headlines when Babe Ruth died in
1948 ?
@@dcasper8514 I WAS 11 & GOIN CRAZY OVER BASEBALL & RED SOX & TED WILLIAMS. ON A FARM IN NH WHERE WE USED ROCKS FROM A STONE WALL FOR BASES IN A COW PASTURE, LUCKY IF WE HAD 4 or 5 to PLAY. BUT...I DO NOT RECALL THAT SAD DAY...SHAME ON ME. Be Well
One of the most effortless swings with power and Avg, I personally think only Ted Williams was a better hitter in the1920's to1950's Era
Ruth didn't look ordinary. A big powerful man.
I met a guy in a retirement community a few years back. He was an Italian fellow who said he had met Babe Ruth when he was a kid. Supposedly Ruth traveled through his neighborhood somewhat regularly. The man said that upon getting to shake Ruth's hand, he urinated on himself, to which Ruth said something like "don't do that again". The man said Ruth was a fantastic guy, who made people laugh and feel good. So, I guess getting called out for peeing your pants in front of the Babe was even a wonderful experience. If only we could all have such a way with people.
The author left out the whole part that none of Ruth’s contemporaries were not comparable at all.
maybe I'm not seeing what your seeing but at 0:58 it is a right handed catchers glove... yes, its on his left hand but that would make it a right handers glove which is normal for a catcher. but with him being left handed its kind of a strange picture how they set it up lol mostly everybody else has there gloves on their catching hand.
If he took better care of himself, he could have had at least another productive three years. His fun affect that the Tube lauds, went against him when he tried to get the job he wanted the most - Major League manager.
You're right. His hard drinking life played against him.
I liked babe Ruth I also liked the old uniforms they wore actually I am a long time fan of the California Angels who finally won the world series in 2002 wow they hit the winning run to outfielder who dropped the baseball then lost it again before he threw it in. Angels won 3-2
Anybody interested iin learning more about Ruth and baseball in that era would be well served by reading Bill Jenkinson's book on Ruth. Don't be put off by the title. It was forced on Jenkinson by the publisher.
And Hank Aaron went to bat 2800 more times than Babe to hit the same amount of home runs which means his batting records have really never been broken.
I thought it was four thousand.
@@TheNoncritical1 I think to break the 712 lifetime home runs.
aaron couldnt carry babe's jock strap.lol
Amazing vid 🙌
George Herman "Babe" Ruth (THE GREAT BAMBINO!). He looks ordinary yes, but at the same time, knowing who he was, he really does look ordinarily extraordinary!!! He really was, "less than a God, but more than a man", as Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez explained.
I bet when they made the Waltons TV show , they thought about Babe Ruth , when they chose Ralph Waite for John Walton and the 1930's look.
Babe Ruth was 6' 2". Which is like 2% of the population back then. That was not ordinary by any stretch. He towered over ordinaries.
-I grew up in the '70's - at that time, Babe Ruth was widely considered to be, the best baseball ⚾ player, to have ever lived - is that still the case today, in 2022 ??
Ruth was a great player but keep in mind, Yankee stadium was 295 down the right field line and 350 to right when he played there. Talk about a short porch. Yikes! this no doubt padded his stats. It would be interesting to see how many of his home runs were hit at home compared to away.
347 at home
367 on the road
@@ThekiBoran In those days those city stadiums had very irregular designs. One would have to look at each stadium of that time and get the outfield fence distances to each field. Good luck with that.
@@maxoblivion
Irregularity is what made the game so interesting.
@@ThekiBoran Yep, and so impossible to compare players of different eras.
@@maxoblivion
Here you go.
www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/Stadium_statistics.html
Once Ruth started as a full time hitter he would average throughout the rest of his career 43 HR 131 RBI at a .347 batting average. Just imagine if those first 5 years he didnt pitch and instead was a full time hitter, he would have easily 175 more home runs maybe 200+ and he would be well into first all time RBI leader, and prob into the top 10 all time hits leaders.
it's scary to think how good ruth would have been if he had taken better care of himself, i think those wild swings were for show, he knew the camera was on him and babe was a big ham. his swing has been analyzed and it's about as good as it gets, level thru the zone, he may have struck out a lot, but he always had a great batting average along with all those home runs.
His strikeout rate is actually pretty good, especially when you adding his walk rate. He struck out in 12.5% of his plate appearances but walked in 19.4%. Contrast that with one of the guys today who is hardest to strikeout, Jose Ramirez, who strikes out in 11.9% of his plate appearances and walks in 10.2%.
@@snerdterguson 100 strikeouts a season used to embarrassing for a hitter. Now guys strikeout 200 times a season and don't lead the league
@@username-zj9id Joe DiMaggio hit 361 homers and only struck out 369 times. That’s a season and a half of strikeouts for Adam Dunn
@@snerdterguson To be fair Dunn was actually pretty good at the plate for 6 years
@@DanielSong39 As a Red fan (don't follow it anymore) I can speak for myself *AND MANY OTHERS* in saying that he was just terrible when you put together everything that a position player should be. Sometimes it was down right embarrassing. IMO.
No steroids, dead ball and still considered one if the best ever to actually play the game. Hank Aron, the home run king also no steroids, dead ball one of the best to play the game. No kneeling or worrying about who's black who's white. Play ball.
No steroids in Aaron area but lots of the players did "speed" or greenies as they were called. Although steroids were around in the early sixties. I am not saying they were used but they existed. They were not as sophisticated as the ones are today. I mean John Mcenroe, of all people admitted to doing steroids.
He was only 53 when he died.