One of the craziest things to me with Ruth and HRs is during his "on" seasons he was hitting 20+ more HRs than anyone else. In 28 he hit 30 more than anyone. It wasnt till 1929-30 that the rest of baseball started to catch up. He retired in 1935 only a year removed from being #1 or 2 in HRs for a decade. Dude was a beast.
The funny thing is, at least late in is career, one of the 2 men who could legitimately stand up to him in HR totals most years was his also legendary teammate, Lou Gehrig. Many years he and the Babe were #1-#2 in the HR race; in fact, in 1931, they tied for the lead at 46. In 1927 when Babe hit 60 Gehrig was in the race most of the year and finished at 47. Lou Gehrig is honestly a bit underrated IMO.
@@BlueSkyCrystals He's well known, but he's probably the greatest first baseman to ever play the game, and he's sadly more known for his end than his remarkable play.
Not only is Ruth the greatest ever, he’s also arguably the most important and easily the most mythologized player to ever live. First and foremost, let’s not forget that he completely altered the course of history - both in the sport, and especially for the Yanks and Red Sox. No other individual player has had as much of an impact on multiple teams, let alone one. Ruth was the first baseball player to generate such intense scrutiny and public interest. Hell, during World War II, Japanese soldiers would yell, “To hell with Babe Ruth”, to get under the skin of American troops. More books have been written about Ruth than any other Hall of Famer. Since Ruth’s playing days, ballparks have been built to supplement offense and home runs. I could go on, but I think I’ve definitely made my point. Ruth is the greatest ever.
I never understood that Japanese World War II lore, in reference to Babe Ruth. Ruth was long retired by the time the Pacific World War II started. Did US soldiers really get offended by this? Did Japanese say it in English? during the battle? or after someone was captured?
The selling him to fund the musical is kinda an urban myth. Ruth was sold more so because he kept asking for more and more money and also because the owner thought his partying and alcoholism was spiralling out of control. The money the owner got in return for him just happened to be spent on a musical. Also, ironically, Babe was the first player to do an off season conditioning program with a personal trainer. After a lean 1925 season in which he suffered from illness, Ruth worked with boxing coach Artie Mcgovern to get in better shape. He was the only one doing this at the time because he was rich af and the only one who could afford it, with the other players having to work odd jobs during the offseason to make do.
Thank God. There's alooooooot of big commentary channels that get basic facts wrong multiple times every video. Everyone just wants a big channel.. gotta churn out that content
Ruth hit 60 home runs swinging a 54oz bat in an era when the pitching mound was 15 in (not 10), the strike zone was letters to knees, the ball was dead, and banned substances were common. Hell spitballs we’re legal for the first 7 years of his career. Best stat of all time is Babe Ruth leading baseball with 54 home runs in 1920, 2nd place was George Sisler, with 19. Babe is the GOAT.
Bat collector here. Ruth used a 54 oz bat prior to 1920. In 1921 he went with a 42 oz bat that he continued to use until late '20's when he went to a 35-38 oz bat. I have an R2, R34 and an R43. Modern bats mostly spring from the R43.
I enjoyed this video. Plenty of funny and informative bits and I could tell you were having fun and cared about what you were talking about, which always makes these video essays better.
Babe Ruth is by far the GOAT. Ruth being a Incredible hitter and pitcher would be equivalent to Lawrence Taylor being a Great Linebacker, not if he were also a Great Running Back
Little known fact for most: The Chicago White Stockings was the original name of the Chicago Cubs and then became the name of the second Chicago team which came around in 1900. So not only are the White Sox the secondhand team in Chicago, but they also adopted a name secondhand to solidify their secondhand existence.
This is one of the reasons you have to compare withon eras. He might have been healthier if he played today. Though he did get in shape in a few seasons. Basically 3 times he lost weight and managed to hold it together. Then he hit 59 and 60 home runs.
The original Zack Greinke, not just because of the pitching and the dingers, but all the partying was masking depression, according to biographers. He never got over getting dumped at the orphanage, that's why there are so many stories of him visiting kids in the hospital, he never trusted adults again. Plus, there are rumors his real dad was Mexican or Indigenous, he definitely had darker skin and there was a press release written by the Yankees that assured fans this was due to all his extra outfield practice (which, he obviously never did).
It's also rumored that part of the reason Ruth never became a manager is that he was friendly with Negro league players and people inside baseball feared he might integrate the game is he became manager
He was a natural. Every generation gets a few of them. He's simply the best natural of all time. And people think he was obese, he was 6'1" 220lbs. That's not obese, big in the 20s/30s but not obese.
See, the thing about Babe Ruth and his habits with regards to his habits: he wasn't alone in them in his career, especially early on, even if he was the best. Plenty of baseball players in this day, and especially earlier, were known to not work out much and drink, party, and not take care of themselves. For every Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby who worked as hard as they could to win at any cost, you had a Babe Ruth, or even a Paul Waner, who while not as good as Ruth, was a legend in Pittsburgh in the 20s and 30s, and had over 3000 hits. He also would get drunk after games all the time. So I opine this: Babe Ruth came into baseball at the perfect time to not only change the game forever, to not only become a cultural icon, but for his lifestyle to be tolerated.
He used a club for a bat and when you throw the pitch, you better duck. He also had the strikeout title and walked quite a lot when the intentional walk was not a thing.
After 1925 and with a new wife to help him Ruth took his career very, very seriously and it shows up in the stats: From age 31-37 he put up the best such years anyone ever had. He was an insanely good 30+ year old player.
When we celebrated my grandmother's 100th birthday in 2015, my dad mentioned that she was born the year that Babe Ruth hit his first major league homerun. Utterly useless fact but for a baseball fanatic like me, pretty cool 😅
Good video idea, but the camera setup needs work. It was kind of distracting from the (otherwise interesting) content. If you don't want to be seen on camera then don't go in front of a camera.
It's not that mysterious. He was naturally a great athlete: strong as heck with superb hand eye. He'd been playing tons of baseball since a kid, which gave him great "baseball" conditioning. And he was still a young man and could get away with a lot of rough living. It did catch up to him in 25, and he had to get I together to comeback strong. Mantle was similarly reckless, but he had the bad luck to accumulate injuries, which Ruth very luckily avoided. Yet, Mantle didn't lose his plate prowess either. So no big mystery about Ruth. In modern play, though, he probably wouldn't get away with it.
babe ruth is the goat and you can’t tell me different. he put up better stats than bonds and he literally played in the dead ball era as a fat drunkard. absolutely dominated his era and is the most prolific player in mlb history. (and he pitched a bit)
Babe Ruth is considered the best because he reshaped baseball with his play and brought the sport into the limelight. Most of our modern contemporaries wouldn't exist or be the same if it weren't for Ruth. He also was an elite pitcher before becoming an inner circle hitter. I also wanna mention that I hate the whole "dominating across eras" argument that are used in a lot of these debates because it inherently has a huge bias against players from older eras. Of course modern players would sweep the floor with older leagues with how they are today. That's how the evolution of a sport and it's external influences work. Modern players have the history of baseball techniques, results, and other things like sports medicine and technology on their side. Older players have much less to work with having played with less of that history to consult. Either way, it's all based on hypotheticals we cannot test. We don't know if Babe Ruth would put up the same numbers had he been born into this era and raised the same as modern players were. We don't know if Mike Trout would put up the same numbers had he been born a century earlier and only had the technology at the time to deal with. And there's no way of knowing. Ruth dominated his contemporaries in a way that no other baseball player has or likely ever will. Only Ted Williams came close and not that close. That's pretty much all there is to it. Was he, in his context, the GREATEST ever? yes. (Is that context flawed because the leagues were segregated? Also yes. But things like Josh Gibson vs. Babe Ruth will always have to be what-ifs, sadly. Ruth was the greatest according to the facts we have. EDIT: Ruth was also a great athlete in his prime he only became an out of shape slob toward the end of his career.
714 home runs is mind bending when you think about all the dedicated, great hitters that came after and fell short or far short, only one player ever *fairly* hit more home runs than a drunk out of shape schmuck from right after the deadball era
I could be wrong but I believe Babe was also refusing to pitch for the Sox and acting out because of it. Nono Nanette or not, it was likely he’d have been on his way out of Boston.
NOT OFFERING RUTH A MGRS POSITION OR ANY JOB IN BASEBALL WAS A DISGRACE AND A SLAP IN THE FACE, AFTER THE 1919 BLACKSOX, BASEBALL WAS SCREWED, RUTH SAVED THE WHOLE FREAKING GAME, THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT WASN'T A CATCHY PHRASE, IT WAS HOW THE STADIUM GOT BUILT, FROM PEOPLE COMING TO SEE HIM, THE BAMBINO, THE SULTON OF SWAT, THE BABE #3
Before Babe was turned down by Colonel Ruppert, he had been offered the manager position of the Detroit Tigers by owner Frank Navin, and in fact, turned it down.
One of the craziest things to me with Ruth and HRs is during his "on" seasons he was hitting 20+ more HRs than anyone else. In 28 he hit 30 more than anyone. It wasnt till 1929-30 that the rest of baseball started to catch up. He retired in 1935 only a year removed from being #1 or 2 in HRs for a decade. Dude was a beast.
The funny thing is, at least late in is career, one of the 2 men who could legitimately stand up to him in HR totals most years was his also legendary teammate, Lou Gehrig. Many years he and the Babe were #1-#2 in the HR race; in fact, in 1931, they tied for the lead at 46. In 1927 when Babe hit 60 Gehrig was in the race most of the year and finished at 47. Lou Gehrig is honestly a bit underrated IMO.
@@RealBlueony And that's saying something considering that he is also a 1st ballot HOFer.
@Alien Footprints Dont be pedantic. I rounded up for the sake of conversation. smh
@@RealBlueonyNo way Gehrig is underrated. He is as well known and lauded as any great hitter from that time.
@@BlueSkyCrystals He's well known, but he's probably the greatest first baseman to ever play the game, and he's sadly more known for his end than his remarkable play.
Not only is Ruth the greatest ever, he’s also arguably the most important and easily the most mythologized player to ever live.
First and foremost, let’s not forget that he completely altered the course of history - both in the sport, and especially for the Yanks and Red Sox. No other individual player has had as much of an impact on multiple teams, let alone one.
Ruth was the first baseball player to generate such intense scrutiny and public interest. Hell, during World War II, Japanese soldiers would yell, “To hell with Babe Ruth”, to get under the skin of American troops.
More books have been written about Ruth than any other Hall of Famer. Since Ruth’s playing days, ballparks have been built to supplement offense and home runs.
I could go on, but I think I’ve definitely made my point. Ruth is the greatest ever.
I never understood that Japanese World War II lore, in reference to Babe Ruth. Ruth was long retired by the time the Pacific World War II started. Did US soldiers really get offended by this? Did Japanese say it in English? during the battle? or after someone was captured?
So if I become an Alcoholic, I can hit 50+ Homers a season? Sweet!
Yes, exactly
@@CodeineAbdulJabbar no Bc babe Ruth is babe Ruth and you would just be a pathetic drunk
Only if you become a “Functional Alcoholic” maybe.
And if you mix it with coke you can steal 50+ bases
Do you have top tier visual acuity and pitch recognition processing power? Without that, even a perfect body and mechanics are meaningless.
The selling him to fund the musical is kinda an urban myth. Ruth was sold more so because he kept asking for more and more money and also because the owner thought his partying and alcoholism was spiralling out of control. The money the owner got in return for him just happened to be spent on a musical.
Also, ironically, Babe was the first player to do an off season conditioning program with a personal trainer. After a lean 1925 season in which he suffered from illness, Ruth worked with boxing coach Artie Mcgovern to get in better shape. He was the only one doing this at the time because he was rich af and the only one who could afford it, with the other players having to work odd jobs during the offseason to make do.
Thank God. There's alooooooot of big commentary channels that get basic facts wrong multiple times every video. Everyone just wants a big channel.. gotta churn out that content
I thought that myth died off years ago, hardly anyone gets in wrong if they do a modicum of research (thanks Glenn Stout)
Ruth hit 60 home runs swinging a 54oz bat in an era when the pitching mound was 15 in (not 10), the strike zone was letters to knees, the ball was dead, and banned substances were common. Hell spitballs we’re legal for the first 7 years of his career.
Best stat of all time is Babe Ruth leading baseball with 54 home runs in 1920, 2nd place was George Sisler, with 19. Babe is the GOAT.
Bat collector here. Ruth used a 54 oz bat prior to 1920. In 1921 he went with a 42 oz bat that he continued to use until late '20's when he went to a 35-38 oz bat. I have an R2, R34 and an R43. Modern bats mostly spring from the R43.
Bro I love the video even though I feel like I’m getting mugged while watching it, keep up the great work!
POV: the guy mugging you goes off on a tangent about baseball history and you kind of just stand there and let him
I enjoyed this video. Plenty of funny and informative bits and I could tell you were having fun and cared about what you were talking about, which always makes these video essays better.
Love the whole “coming’ to rob ya” look. Keep it up bro.
Babe Ruth is by far the GOAT. Ruth being a Incredible hitter and pitcher would be equivalent to Lawrence Taylor being a Great Linebacker, not if he were also a Great Running Back
Little known fact for most: The Chicago White Stockings was the original name of the Chicago Cubs and then became the name of the second Chicago team which came around in 1900. So not only are the White Sox the secondhand team in Chicago, but they also adopted a name secondhand to solidify their secondhand existence.
Love the suit. Also, "boring is not epic" is my new favorite quote
This is one of the reasons you have to compare withon eras. He might have been healthier if he played today.
Though he did get in shape in a few seasons. Basically 3 times he lost weight and managed to hold it together. Then he hit 59 and 60 home runs.
The original Zack Greinke, not just because of the pitching and the dingers, but all the partying was masking depression, according to biographers.
He never got over getting dumped at the orphanage, that's why there are so many stories of him visiting kids in the hospital, he never trusted adults again.
Plus, there are rumors his real dad was Mexican or Indigenous, he definitely had darker skin and there was a press release written by the Yankees that assured fans this was due to all his extra outfield practice (which, he obviously never did).
Zack Greinke could've been the Babe Ruth of baseball
It's also rumored that part of the reason Ruth never became a manager is that he was friendly with Negro league players and people inside baseball feared he might integrate the game is he became manager
“I am the liquor.” - Jim Leyhey
He was a natural. Every generation gets a few of them. He's simply the best natural of all time. And people think he was obese, he was 6'1" 220lbs. That's not obese, big in the 20s/30s but not obese.
I got a wawa sandwhich ad the moment you talked about his physical care 😂
He hit some 500 ft shots without steroids and weight lifting . Unbelievable .
See, the thing about Babe Ruth and his habits with regards to his habits: he wasn't alone in them in his career, especially early on, even if he was the best. Plenty of baseball players in this day, and especially earlier, were known to not work out much and drink, party, and not take care of themselves. For every Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby who worked as hard as they could to win at any cost, you had a Babe Ruth, or even a Paul Waner, who while not as good as Ruth, was a legend in Pittsburgh in the 20s and 30s, and had over 3000 hits. He also would get drunk after games all the time. So I opine this: Babe Ruth came into baseball at the perfect time to not only change the game forever, to not only become a cultural icon, but for his lifestyle to be tolerated.
Hack Wilson hit .356 with 56 HR and 191 RBI for the Cubs in 1930, and may have been on a giant bender the whole season.
One of my favorite quotes from YT baseball prays: "Baseball isn't really a sport. it's more of an excuse to get really messed up"
@@qfmarsh64You beat me to it. Supposedly he also had fetal alcohol syndrome.
“The balls were so sus back then.”
Highkey used to love Baby Ruth candy bars.
Real heckin’ attitude brother. Dig it!
And don't forget, the media covered up his exploits to elevate his status as a hero for the kids!
Keep up the format, I like the idea of Sports In The Shadows like Todd with music!
Crazy that him and Lou Gehrig were on the same team and had totally opposite personalities
Body builder GiancarloStanton looks 10 times better then Babe Ruth yet Babe was 10 times better hitter. It proves doesn't matter how you look
God showed up. He just happened to die of cancer later. . .
It takes a special person to pull off a ski mask AND a bandanna.
YES" The Babe was the Greatest Player in Baseball
Ditto for Mantle.
😂😂 When you drop a you tube vid before robbing a bank. Great video!
lol what an intro
more like an eye-cam
good stuff
So he was the John Daly of baseball
He used a club for a bat and when you throw the pitch, you better duck. He also had the strikeout title and walked quite a lot when the intentional walk was not a thing.
Nice. Cool vid. Happy I clicked. Would watch again. Very cool. Thanks.
that was the most random patrick cc appearance ever 😭😂
Like the new style
After 1925 and with a new wife to help him Ruth took his career very, very seriously and it shows up in the stats: From age 31-37 he put up the best such years anyone ever had. He was an insanely good 30+ year old player.
This video has no dislikes, so yeah, pretty good stuff!
It's cause RUclips doesn't show the number of dislikes anymore cause you know "feelings".
@@goober5713 yeah, it’s brutal
The only problem with this format is that your voice is a bit muffled from the mask so your not as clear as you usually would be.
Baby ruth, like the candy bar
Great stuff
The Shining SCK Film Cut
The Broadway play part was a myth
Great video and stats! Babe is the GOAT!
When we celebrated my grandmother's 100th birthday in 2015, my dad mentioned that she was born the year that Babe Ruth hit his first major league homerun. Utterly useless fact but for a baseball fanatic like me, pretty cool 😅
"Boring is not epic" 👍
Reporter: You're making more than the President of the United States.
(Making $100,000 @ the time.)
Ruth: Well I'm having a better year them him.
Baby Ruth like the candy bar
Players have just gotten so much better each decade. Well, not including the roid days and before pitchers became bionic rpm Canons
2:15 "Behind the bag! It gets through Buckner and the Mets win it"
He also lead in all time strikeouts. That’s how it is with power hitters
He struck out fewer than Barry Bonds. 1330 to 1539. Tell me you pulled those "facts" out of your ass.
Reggie Jackson struck out more than anyone in baseball history.
interesting choice in content switch. not gonna say i don’t like it, just gonna say it’s definitely different.
yes
Next video: Ty Cobb
Ty cobb baseball hitting scientist
@ yup
Good video idea, but the camera setup needs work. It was kind of distracting from the (otherwise interesting) content. If you don't want to be seen on camera then don't go in front of a camera.
We know it's you Peter Parker, take off your mask. Babe Ruth deserves the respect
Show me a man who never eats hot dogs or drinks beer
So what you're saying he was a freak of nature
yeah pretty much
Babe did it on 🍺n🌭Hank did it with class now Barry how did u do it? 💊
Baby ruth
I prefer the videos without a face cam, but I don’t mind if you keep this style
Baby Ruth
Hey u have my chair in the background
It's not that mysterious. He was naturally a great athlete: strong as heck with superb hand eye. He'd been playing tons of baseball since a kid, which gave him great "baseball" conditioning. And he was still a young man and could get away with a lot of rough living. It did catch up to him in 25, and he had to get I together to comeback strong. Mantle was similarly reckless, but he had the bad luck to accumulate injuries, which Ruth very luckily avoided. Yet, Mantle didn't lose his plate prowess either. So no big mystery about Ruth. In modern play, though, he probably wouldn't get away with it.
Baby ruth is the goat
Ahhh. The Babe
It was a different era mist players had jobs outside of baseball and married by 16 and got three kids already.😂
Babe Ruth career is like some average joe travel back in time and just hit baseballs for fun
Imagine him having a drop -3 bat
Make a video on who’s the greatest off all time
What a beast
babe ruth is the goat and you can’t tell me different. he put up better stats than bonds and he literally played in the dead ball era as a fat drunkard. absolutely dominated his era and is the most prolific player in mlb history. (and he pitched a bit)
Where’s my 50+ homers god?
Di Hank Greenberg. Jewish. Lost best years to WW2
Babe Ruth is considered the best because he reshaped baseball with his play and brought the sport into the limelight. Most of our modern contemporaries wouldn't exist or be the same if it weren't for Ruth. He also was an elite pitcher before becoming an inner circle hitter. I also wanna mention that I hate the whole "dominating across eras" argument that are used in a lot of these debates because it inherently has a huge bias against players from older eras. Of course modern players would sweep the floor with older leagues with how they are today. That's how the evolution of a sport and it's external influences work. Modern players have the history of baseball techniques, results, and other things like sports medicine and technology on their side. Older players have much less to work with having played with less of that history to consult. Either way, it's all based on hypotheticals we cannot test. We don't know if Babe Ruth would put up the same numbers had he been born into this era and raised the same as modern players were. We don't know if Mike Trout would put up the same numbers had he been born a century earlier and only had the technology at the time to deal with. And there's no way of knowing. Ruth dominated his contemporaries in a way that no other baseball player has or likely ever will. Only Ted Williams came close and not that close. That's pretty much all there is to it. Was he, in his context, the GREATEST ever? yes. (Is that context flawed because the leagues were segregated? Also yes. But things like Josh Gibson vs. Babe Ruth will always have to be what-ifs, sadly. Ruth was the greatest according to the facts we have. EDIT: Ruth was also a great athlete in his prime he only became an out of shape slob toward the end of his career.
Baseball is the greatest sport of all time.
Source: this video
NFL football is far superior. Maybe not back then but now it is.
PEACE
1. Barry Bonds 2. Ken Griffey Jr 3. Rickey Henderson
Some woman named Ruth. Baby Ruth!!
Is that a microwave on your dresser?
Na it's a storage container with 4 draws lol
Nice, can’t wait till Senior Ruth’s video…
714 home runs is mind bending when you think about all the dedicated, great hitters that came after and fell short or far short, only one player ever *fairly* hit more home runs than a drunk out of shape schmuck from right after the deadball era
Also how do u do vids w all that on ur face
The syphilis year was a down year by Ruth standards. He only had a .936 OPS....?
scoffed at the face cam at first because of the lack of face, but you made it work so well!
BABY RUTH!!!!
Ruth the 🐐
Bruh I'm a red sox fan and the only question I have IS WHY A FUCKING MUSICAL FOR BABE RUTH
I love you forever baby Ruth
SEE, EVEN BANK-ROBBERS LOVE BABE RUTH!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS - GOOD VIDEO!!!!!!!
It’s not a facecam if u mask ur face but like the idea
I could be wrong but I believe Babe was also refusing to pitch for the Sox and acting out because of it. Nono Nanette or not, it was likely he’d have been on his way out of Boston.
Red Sox owner had a fire sale. He wanted money from selling the rights to half his players.
@@someperson8151 yes, but Ruth also did not want to pitch anymore. The Red Sox owner wanted him to. This is something often not covered
❤babe ruth my hero
Thick ol’ baby Ruth
Pause in the beginning.
why can’t we see ur face
Why you got that stuff on your face though?
I enjoy my anonymity
🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Baby Ruth" idk I just want likes tbh
If you do a facecam video I'd definitely prefer it without the mask, but otherwise a good video
NOT OFFERING RUTH A MGRS POSITION OR ANY JOB IN BASEBALL WAS A DISGRACE AND A SLAP IN THE FACE, AFTER THE 1919 BLACKSOX, BASEBALL WAS SCREWED, RUTH SAVED THE WHOLE FREAKING GAME, THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT WASN'T A CATCHY PHRASE, IT WAS HOW THE STADIUM GOT BUILT, FROM PEOPLE COMING TO SEE HIM, THE BAMBINO, THE SULTON OF SWAT, THE BABE #3
Before Babe was turned down by Colonel Ruppert, he had been offered the manager position of the Detroit Tigers by owner Frank Navin, and in fact, turned it down.
@@Grizzed556 I SHOULD HAVE SAID WITH THE YANKEES, THAT WAS HIS DREAM,
@@anthonymorelli1532 Yes.