[4k 60fps Colorized] April 27, 1947: Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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The backstory: Two days before Thanksgiving 1946, Babe Ruth went to New York’s French Hospital, complaining of headaches. Initially, doctors diagnosed a sinus condition but in January determined that he needed surgery and he underwent a “serious” procedure. News stories at the time were vague about the pain’s cause; the hospital said only, “One of the main arteries on the left side of the neck was ligated. Post-operative condition satisfactory.” The truth was that Ruth had cancer, a tumor on a carotid artery, and surgery was able to remove only part of it.
A number of Ruth’s supporters, including Chicago’s Emory Perry, called on Chandler and suggested that Opening Day in every ballpark be declared “Babe Ruth Day” on an annual basis, with proceeds going to a planned Babe Ruth Foundation.
Not long after Ruth’s discharge, Chandler announced that major-league baseball would honor him: “All Americans … have been concerned … over the illness of one of baseball’s most beloved figures. … In order that (everyone) might have an opportunity to unite in a … prayer for his early recovery, Sunday, April 27, has been designated as ‘Babe Ruth Day.’”
The plan was that the center of the day’s activities would be, fittingly, Yankee Stadium and that other clubs would hold “appropriate ceremonies.” Roughly two weeks after Chandler’s announcement, George M. Trautman, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, announced that every minor-league team with a game on April 27 would also celebrate Ruth. As it turned out, Japan also honored him that day, in ceremonies in Tokyo and Osaka.
That Sunday afternoon brought pleasant weather to New York, with temperatures in the mid-60s at the time of the ceremony. The park was full, as 58,339 fans turned out, by far the Yankees’ largest attendance in the young season. (While they drew larger crowds later that year, the total was roughly 20,000 higher than Opening Day’s 39,344, previously the team’s biggest 1947 crowd.) In every major-league ballpark hosting a game that day, the attendance was the high-water mark on the season to that point, save in Brooklyn.
Ruth was not there for the end: He had left after the seventh. He made one more visit to the Stadium, roughly 14 months later, when he came for a second ceremony, the retirement of his iconic number 3 jersey. He died on August 16, 1948.
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✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
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✔ Colorized*
*Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and does not represent real historical data. The AI still struggles with the separation between infield dirt and grass, etc.
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He's only in his early 50s here, seems like early 80s.
He is 52 in 1947
I believe that he was only 48! Tragic!
@@rongendron8705Ruth was 53 when he died in 1948. Lou Gehrig was only 37 when he died in 1941.
The poor fella was dying. Damn cancer.😢
Cancer will do that.
This event happened 9 years before I was born but I am a boomer and I was raised by the greatest generation and they passed on to me all of their love and feelings for the Bambino and so here I sit in 2024 watching this and crying.
Hard to believe we lost both Ruth and Gehrig within 10 years of each other, and both were tragically cut short.....
Yeah but it feels like Ruth kinda got a full life in 53 years. Gehrig was tragic he didn't live a complete life
@@andrewsmith325753 is still young. The average life span in 1948 for a male was about 65 years.
@@FrankSinatrqConnie Mack died in 1956 at the age of 93.
@@KevinMiller-xn5vu “average”
His throat got so much worse. We love you babe. You are the legend.
Overrated
You are crazy brilliant baseball hitter & putcher babe Ruth @@styles9956
Messi > Babe Ruth
@hectorlopez1069 ❤️ babe ruth original homerun king
@@styles9956why is he overrated? He hit 60 homeruns in a season.
He is and will always be the greatest Baseball Player ever. He did it without steroids and no weight training. A natural at the profession he loved. Babe, you are my Idol.
He was not the best and did it in a non-inclusive league. Do not be in denial.
@@styles9956 Thats your opinion and you are entitled to it.
@@styles9956He was the best.Get over your white guilt.
@@styles9956he hit better against blacks in exhibitions, from an average standpoint, than MLB pitchers. It’s well documented.
I give it to Aaron. I think pitching was a little more advanced and harder to go against
He will live forever. When someone is real good in a profession, Many will say he's the babe ruth of car salesman ect.
The best !
0:25 (hoarse voice) There’s been so many lovely things said about me, and I’m glad that I’ve had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.
Imagine all the folks that got to witness babe Ruth play or even just was at this event. They bragged about that to their kids, grandkids, nephews and nieces, uncles and aunts, siblings, classmates, coworkers, the cashier at the grocery store, and everybody else they ran into or interacted with on a daily basis. Is there anyone more famous than The Great Bambino? Nope.
The GOAT without a doubt. Players before him hit for a higher average, some since have hit more home runs, there were greater pitchers, but no-one did it the way the Babe did.
Babe Ruth is a legend but ohtani is all around better in a more skilled league.
@@LATitan exactly lol
@@LATitan but O isnt an American.
Amazing he was only 53
My uncle was at this
Yes I was nephew
⚾️👍🇺🇸🫡
Greatest sports legend of all time.
funny joke
I was there!!!!! I was literally sitting 20 feet from George Steinbrenner!!!!!
Unforgettable memory!!!!!
Wow, so you’re like 90-95 years old and using RUclips and commenting on other videos that are watched mostly by young people??
@@JenniferMedina-bg1zb I’m not ‘like’ 95: using ‘like’ in every other sentence is one of the habits of stupid young people who watch RUclips and stare at their phones all day and night. Are you one of them? It’s like, literally like, ok, like… and FYI RUclips has no age restrictions. And, like, I know more about baseball than you ever will.
@@cadaverdog1424 i literally used the word “like” one time. And you talk pretty disrespectful on a computer which is a very bad look. Only cowards blow up and attack someone so suddenly like that online. And your knowledge of baseball isn’t going to impress me or anyone else. It’s a game. I focus my knowledge in more important and meaningful areas of life. Have a nice day, boomer.
Wow!!! Amazing!!! like how old are you then? Like let us know! We really like want to know! Like booo merrrrrrr
@@BoFa_Roguethis guy didn’t see Babe Ruth play in person.
The Greatest
I'm so sad that he died
❤️ babe Ruth
I mean he was born in 1895 he would've been long gone by now
I sure hope this colorization tech continues to improve over the coming years so these b/w films can be colorized without that weird purple effect.
It’s getting better. Consumer tools are a bit behind professional. That fringe usually happens when the video quality is poor and there is not good contrast or borders to color.
@@TheBreakBrothers For example, you know how they did those Christmas episodes of Lucy and Andy in color? Why not someday be able to do them all like that? I'm especially curious to know what Dennis the Menace (early 60s sitcom) would look like in color.
Cartoons, drawings with hard borders are much easier to color accurately with AI. We are working on a Tu Cobb video that uses AI plus also a new technique we are testing using Photoshop to do an initial colorization on all frames before touching up. The tech is coming.
Love this much better in color. Just brings life to it
you think so? I think it looks like shit
@@jp783 I agree with both of you. I like it in color, but a human being would do much better that crappy AI.
To think that he died in his early 50's and I'm 69 and look 20 years younger and am more robust. All those hot dogs, beer, and cigars caught up with him AND he put up all those stats in the day..amazing.
Rest in peace, Mr Ruth. We have now a successor to you, Shohei Ohtani. Just watch him play from above.
Love Babe Ruth, make no mistake, but I'm a Ty Cobb guy as the 'greatest' ..Robert at 69.
Babe sounded like emperor palpatine!
A big hoopla for his wake at Yankee stadium, but didn't want nothing to do with him as a manager!
He looked way sicker and closer to death here than he did during his last appearance at Yankee Stadium a year later. Maybe the uniform and cap hid it.
His throat tho he was in so much pain probably
They’d all be ashamed of America today.
So this is where Heath got his Joker from
🌹💋🌹Babe👑Ruth🌹💋🌹
I wish I could be in that time for a month
Before politics entered sports.
Maybe the most legendary name in sports history, kids in the 90s when i was a kid talked about him after all those years , i wonder if they still do
With AI this could have looked much better
He aged 25 yrs between 1941 and 1947. So sad!
Babe looks like 500 years old.
🤣
Ruined by colorization
Thanks for watching. No worries, there’s still plenty of the original b&w versions, though not upscaled and 60fps likely.
why couldn’t the guy just say his daughter? Why do you have to say adopted daughter? What does that matter?
Well, it was 1947, and the idea that someone would pick through his words to come up with some phantom reason to get offended on behalf of someone else (who is also dead by this point, FYI) never crossed his mind... I'm sure you can get reparations from the commentators great grandchildren if it's really that important to you.
Believe it or not, some people might have found it interesting and even MORE admirable to know that Babe Ruth was willing to adopt a child and raise her... He didn't say anything untrue. Way to go, you've found a way to get offended by someone stating the truth, that's gotta be like a gold medal for folks like you.
I remember that day I was there
Red sox > Yankees
RIP
I still like the old B & W
Our demos show 1/3 of our audience is younger. We hope that by providing these colorized videos that they serve as a gateway to younger audiences to a generation of players that might not be discovered otherwise. The original b&w was great!
No this is way better
I never knew Babe Ruth was part black or was ever talked about all these decades.
The flicker rate anc.constantly changing colors of objecta in these new computercolorized version males me miss black and white. Technicolor colorization by hand are so much grander drom film. These are an attack on mind.
I said get lost.
They should normalize showing old film at regular speed jesus fuck
Looks like a lot of empty seats. Too bad, this was a historic day.
The Traditional Catholic Church is so beautiful. Its hard to see her being attacked and infiltrated by evil currentlyn We must returm to Tradition.
Seriously??🤦🏾♂️ They were “infiltrated by evil” by the time the final of the 12 apostles (John) died by the end of the first century. All things considered a legitimate case could be made that the Catholic Church is the most prolific and destructive terrorist organization in the world since the death of Christ. So to see you pining away for some nonexistent era of transcendence is laughable.
The Yankees really tore this building down… absolutely disgraceful.
Looked better in black and white.
No worries, we don’t harm the original footage! It’s still available to you to watch.
@@TheBreakBrothers I just wanted to see this clip. I thought the color looked strange. I do like some things in color like WW1 footage. This is okay. But don't colorize old movies!
A Babe in a 📦 box