Bloops: Rare footage of Ruth and Gehrig Unearthed
Posted by Neil Paine on March 22, 2011
"Amid eight reels of 16-millimeter film recently discovered in excellent condition in an Illinois cellar are three and a half minutes of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig wearing the uniforms, but not the caps, of their barnstorming teams. The film is believed to have been shot with a high-end home movie camera in or around Sioux City, Iowa, on Oct. 18, 1927 — 10 days after the Yankees completed a four-game World Series sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates."
March 22nd, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Wow. Ruth was already a very large man at just 32 and half years old. Funny thing is that he aged better than most performance-wise. Look at his numbers *after* this video was taken:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml#1928-1935-sum:batting_standard
He still hit 195 OPS+ after that.
March 23rd, 2011 at 3:48 am
Steroids in all those hot dogs? Maybe they called it "Human G-Ruth Hormone."
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:02 am
pretty good speech from the babe at the inaugural hall of fame induction ceremony-did not realize such little video of ruth
March 23rd, 2011 at 12:08 pm
@3/ There is one particular piece of video of Babe Ruth swinging and running out a HR, that seems to be used in countless stories and documentaries about him - does anyone know the origin of that?
March 23rd, 2011 at 2:03 pm
How does one see the video? Is there a link?
March 23rd, 2011 at 2:55 pm
click on "From the NY Times" for the link.
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Loved the Ruth/Cobb/Johnson film at MLB that was linked in the story.