On July 18th 1921 the Babe hit his 139th homerun, breaking Roger Conners all-time career record. Every one he hit after that was a new record until he finished with 714!
Babe Ruth's accomplishments as a hitter are unfathomable. He hit more home runs by himself than entire teams hit. If someone were to do that now, he'd have to hit way over 200 home runs per year. AND he hit for very high average. AND he was a great pitcher. Simply the Best Ever.
Nah ohtani has passed em And this fatty played with all slow white guys .. if he was in todays talent he’d be getting worked lol othani the goat not even close
No, if someone were to do that now theyd just have to play against the league Ruth did lol. It’s a cool history fact but it’s silly to act like his accomplishments would scale up in todays era as opposed to scaling down.
When you combine Ruth’s overall talents with pitching and hitting, and his huge influence on the game itself, Ruth stands as the greatest player of all time.
We just went to a Yankees game on 4/13 at the new stadium. We stopped by the original stadium across the street and it was magical!!! Walking into the new stadium and seeing all of the posters of the greatest players ever - Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Berra, DiMaggio - was awesome! My 9 y.o. baseball player had a blast!
@@LegendaryNuggets i did, the average pitch speed in the 1920s was 70mph, the average pitch speed today is 92mph. Obviously there are a few outliers, but on average guys back then are no where near todays level in terms of pitching speed
I like the highlight at 3.55. Ruth was 40 and playing in an exhibition game in Buffalo. It shows the power of his swing even at that age. You can tell he knocked it out of the stadium because as he rounded first you can see the fans looking over the back wall in the outfield bleachers.
anyone remember going to babe ruths resteraunt..? I was like 5-10 probably in 1990s when I went there frequently. The entrance had a home plate when you walked up to the door, & EVERY booth had a personal tiny televsion. and yes back then it was probably black and white :P my god i loved that place
@@brnape707look up walter johnson bud, plenty of guys sat in the high 80s low 90s, with some like walt clocking 95. Ruth didn’t play in the dead ball era why do people associate 60mph throwers in his prime/era? Dead ball was 1880 - 1910s
I realize that its projection but if he was a full time player his first 5 seasons he would have had over 900 homers and possibly 2800 rbi and nobody would have come close to those numbers Ruth was an absolute monster at the plate with a 342 csreer batting average and minimal strikeouts at bat His reflexes were cat quick and hand eye coordination had to be phenomenal
Babe was a legendary baseball player, his stats are proof of his greatness. Nobody has ever made an impact on the game of baseball as he has. Babe is the greatest baseball player of all time, followed by Ty Cobb
He's mainly known for his hitting but Ruth was a freaking ace too. Just for some # comparisons... Babe Ruth - 2.28 (17th lowest of all time) Kershaw - 2.48 Cy Young - 2.62 Pedro Martinez - 2.92 Greg Maddux - 3.16 Nolan Ryan - 3.19 Verlander 3.32
Babe Ruth was a one of a kind original superstar, being a great slugger and great pitcher, I can't think of anybody else who could hit and pitch like him
@@neilwattoo he isnt. he is a check down passer who plays on god squads. people call him humble for taking pay cuts but call kd a snake for taking pay cuts to play on better teams. he is a diva double standard in action.
Are my eyes deceiving me? Is Babe Ruth admiring his home runs?? All the "get off my lawn" people told me only modern players admired their home runs..Oh well ! Myth debunked
People like to say he wouldn’t be good now a days. But that swing is amongst the best in todays game. And he’s swinging 45 ounces of lumber. I think he’s be up there with Shohei in my opinion. Especially with the training now a days.
Such a different time. Big fat guy running around out there, sometimes hungover, sometimes half drunk after going from the bar straight to games. Just a totally different world thats hard to fathom nearly 100 years later. Mlb is such a big, refined, serious business now that it was not back then.
I know hes one of the greatest of all time but I just can't do picture him doing so well in today's game, wouldn't know what to do with the pitchers and speed of it now
@@MrThemanofspeed exactly. If the guy could hit a ball that far that many times with none of the benefits of modern nutrition, weight training, coaching etc. imagine what he could do with all of the modern advantages.
@@jimmyolsen5897 You have to look at the level of competition though. The average pitching speed in the Babe Ruth era was 70mph, in the Ohtani era its 92mph, and theres a lot more variety in terms of the types of pitches thrown nowadays because guys are more skilled
People. These players don't look like they can compete to the guy's in the show today because it was 100 years ago. Nobody has ever dominated any sport the way Babe Ruth dominated his era. He was ahead of his time and with the way things are setup in professional sports now there will never be an athlete this dominant again... Ever.
I'll be honest I never thought babe could last in today's game but with proper training he definitely could, he wouldn't be the top 5-10 hitter he is now but he had remarkably similar mechanics to barry bonds but without a leg kick, its actually astounding how he had such good timing without any load gathering
Everyone says he couldn’t and the pitching was awful, but he was still doing something in the game no one had done before or could during his whole career and for decades after. There’s no way that raw talent would fail him in the bigs today.
@@Tennischamp450 He would have to make a few adjustments and adopt a better training regimen but his talent as both pitcher abs batter was so exceptional that there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t be huge star if he played today. His eye-hand coordination was incredible. He’d probably have to use a lighter bat against todays faster pitching. Maybe shorten his swing a bit.
@The Angry Grizzly I agree the game is garbage today but I don’t think the pitching is inferior. In fact, pitchers today throw harder than they did years ago. I think the problem is that the game is now all about power pitching and power hitting. There are fewer balls put in play. More strikeouts, more walks, more home runs. Fewer singles. I think they should move the pitchers mound back a few feet to compensate.
Cecil Fielders swing reminds of Ruth’s a bit. The hand movement and step towards the ball are similar. I almost wonder if Cecil had seen Babe’s swing and took inspiration from it. Probably not since seeing footage of Ruth’s swing was hard to come by in the 80s. But it would make sense since they both had similar builds and power.
@@Grizzlied555 By saying similar power I meant both were in the top one percent of power hitters of there day and both played similar roles in the batting order for there teams. But even so have you seen how many times Cecil left Tiger stadium and other stadiums ? Cecil can’t be that far behind Ruth in terms of pure power. People can sometimes get a bit carried away with estimating the abilities of legends like Ruth decades after he played. I would agree Ruth probably had more overall power than Cecil but I don’t think the difference in power is as huge as people might think. Rewatch some of Cecil’s homerun highlights. Some of the longest homeruns ever hit on film without the aide of steroids. Plus Cecil was one of the few players pre steroids to hit 50 homers in a single season.
Watching the Sandlot is what made me discover and want to know more about Babe Ruth if I’m being honest. He was before my time but so glad ‘The Sandlot’ made audiences remember. That movie was more or less a dedication to Babe Ruth’s greatness.
they served up meatballs down the middle or the occasional garbage offspeed. the spin rate, velocity, movement of todays sinkers sliders alone would have him batting exactly zero at the plate.. maybe .0001 if he adjusted the huge drop of the hands before the swing, unathletic stance
The only reason we pitch harder today is because of #1 Technique and #2 Nutrition. Players back then were much sturdier and tougher, they played injured and exhausted. I'd say the average fastball was about 4-6 mph slower than nowadays. Still, the Babe was a big guy (6'2) and could swing that 40oz bat like it was a twig. He also had insane weight distribution mechanics in his swing. The momentum he built in that front foot step & swing was responsible for 714 of his homeruns.
=3:55 From Bill Jeckinson's book, "Babe Ruth: Against all odds, world's mightiest slugger" . April 7th, 1935 in Newark, New Jersey. Ruppert Stadium. Corners in deepest left and right were 430 feet from home plate. NY Times: "the ball sailed over the heads of the bleacherites, clearing the farthest corner in right field by 50 feet and landing in the street behind the park. It was the longest drive ever made out of Ruppert Stadium" NY Times: 500 feet estimate Newark Evening News: 450 plus estimate and added "Ruth himself believes it was close to 500 feet and he said after the game that he had never hit a ball harder" Boston Globe: "fully 500 feet" NY Herald Tribune: "almost 500 feet" Boston Post "well over 500 feet" Boston Herald "at least 500 feet" Brooklyn Eagle "525 feet"
The way he runs is hilarious
the footage is sped up
It’s hard to believe he was an outfielder
Its the camera
No effort..lol..but that's the first thing I noticed
If you're too fat to run fast, just smash it out of the park so you don't have to.
I don't fully remember why I looked up Babe Ruth highlights, but I'm glad I did lol
Bruh me either lol sitting here high and jst typed in babe Ruth highlights for no reason
@@oskithedonable Bro same lmao
@@oskithedonable I appreciate you
You 2
My reason is I jus watched Sandlot lol
On July 18th 1921 the Babe hit his 139th homerun, breaking Roger Conners all-time career record. Every one he hit after that was a new record until he finished with 714!
Well no shit
Which was eventually broken by Barry bonds
@@Htown_sports_dude *Hank Aaron. Barry doesn’t count.
Who cares
Never knew that thx
No steroids, no pulled in fences, no shortened walls, no lengthened seasons. No light bats, Just pure, raw, talent.
Cigars to Ruth are like spinach to popeye
Also no POC
No minorities, no talented pitching.
@The Real Alien Observer lol shut up
Very true statement, Babe never took any drugs, he was pure power and talent
Not a phone in sight, just people enjoying the Babe.
Babe Ruth's accomplishments as a hitter are unfathomable. He hit more home runs by himself than entire teams hit. If someone were to do that now, he'd have to hit way over 200 home runs per year. AND he hit for very high average. AND he was a great pitcher. Simply the Best Ever.
❤️ babe ruth my hero ,brillant baseball hitter & player
Nah ohtani has passed em
And this fatty played with all slow white guys .. if he was in todays talent he’d be getting worked lol othani the goat not even close
glazer
Are these videos from the end of his career? Was he fitter back then?
No, if someone were to do that now theyd just have to play against the league Ruth did lol. It’s a cool history fact but it’s silly to act like his accomplishments would scale up in todays era as opposed to scaling down.
Babe was a great power hitter who also hit for average and a great pitcher. Babe was a baseball legend who made the game famous
Right, he made it famous
Have you seen him play in person?
@@gregoryalexandre4642 no way, I was born in 1986, Babe Ruth died in 1948.
The game was famous way before him
Babe took the game to a new level of greatness, the first great superstar of baseball
When you combine Ruth’s overall talents with pitching and hitting, and his huge influence on the game itself, Ruth stands as the greatest player of all time.
👍😁🐐
Ohtani took the crown
@@ivanaldaz9811 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 🤣😅🥰
@@ivanaldaz9811 hard to disagree
All you can do is compare them to their peers . Ruth hit more homers than most teams! He truly revolutionized the game.
I'm drunk and it's 3:00 am and I'm watching Babe Ruth highlights.
I’m looking and he’s the goat at baseball. His presence and his ability to consistently hit home runs is something most people wouldn’t see.
put him in the box with the cuban missile. he’s gonna cry to his momma.
I wasn’t thinking there would be this enough highlights of Babe Ruth that would survive today.
I didn't know at the time no other team could even match the # of homers he'd hit in a season. Incredible 🐐
We just went to a Yankees game on 4/13 at the new stadium. We stopped by the original stadium across the street and it was magical!!! Walking into the new stadium and seeing all of the posters of the greatest players ever - Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Berra, DiMaggio - was awesome! My 9 y.o. baseball player had a blast!
His stature reminds me of my dads. It’s crazy how he doesn’t seem like a person that’s in shape and yet he was the best.
he was playing against amateurs. Guys back then werent throwing 90 mile fast balls
@ravdeepbhullar1448 yeah they were they were throwing 80-90 look it up
@@LegendaryNuggets i did, the average pitch speed in the 1920s was 70mph, the average pitch speed today is 92mph. Obviously there are a few outliers, but on average guys back then are no where near todays level in terms of pitching speed
@@ravdeepbhullar1448 ua-cam.com/video/EV8Q3uPSe7Q/v-deo.htmlsi=y4a5EaIxYx_Dk7VV why did does this say 80-85 then
Round is a shape lol
I like the highlight at 3.55. Ruth was 40 and playing in an exhibition game in Buffalo. It shows the power of his swing even at that age. You can tell he knocked it out of the stadium because as he rounded first you can see the fans looking over the back wall in the outfield bleachers.
Ruth's highlights, are the best highlights.
I really enjoy watching his highlights!
Thanks a lot
the batting practice in color Epic
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His swing was better than most hitters today! Such beautiful form, and he loads up so much power behind every swing. What an incredible specimen
I'd argue that Matt Olson has a pretty swing that is more powerful than Ruth's.
Babe Ruth sucked pitchers back then sucked I could hit a home run back then anybody can and babe Ruth fat n slow
@@willp.8120babe hit a longer home run win the ball was softer . That means babe was more powerful
This guy is going to make it big one day, i just know it! 🙃
TheCuteChoco are u talking about me?
Thanks
he already did make it big dude
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@@smariegib :I
It must have been so exciting him play back then.
anyone remember going to babe ruths resteraunt..? I was like 5-10 probably in 1990s when I went there frequently. The entrance had a home plate when you walked up to the door, & EVERY booth had a personal tiny televsion. and yes back then it was probably black and white :P my god i loved that place
a record that no one will ever break, hitting more home runs (1920) than every team in the league.
Probably because the mlb has real athletes now lmao yes Ruth is one of the greatest ever but he wouldn’t come close to his numbers if he played today
@@buddyferguson4947 wrong. ruth's swing was waaaay ahead of its time.
How many homers did he hit?
@@logansimons9163 babe hit 54 in 1920, an unheard of amount, more than 15 of the 16 teams that year except the phillies who hit 64.
@@buddyferguson4947 too dumb to look past surface level. One day you’ll figure it out, hopefully
I remember this like it was yesterday 😔
Truly the best ever
His swing looks good and powerful. No wonder he hit so many home runs.
his swing is so effortless.
doesn't take much when the pitch is coming in at 60 miles per hour
@brnape707 Wow it must have been nice being there.
@@brnape707look up walter johnson bud, plenty of guys sat in the high 80s low 90s, with some like walt clocking 95. Ruth didn’t play in the dead ball era why do people associate 60mph throwers in his prime/era?
Dead ball was 1880 - 1910s
Greatest of all times, Babe!
These dudes fastballs were
Change ups nowasdays
@alien observer I doubt anyone was pumping over 90, look at their wind ups they are barely getting any velocity behind the ball
@@noahgallegos226 You are not very bright, are you?
You did not graduate with honors, did you? In fact, I bet you did not even graduate, Nate.
@@slaphappyslim3449 If you graduated with honors, how can you still be this stupid?
@@noahgallegos226pirchrers back then did get in the 90s range.
A true master of his craft, unmatched skill and knowledge in his ways, sure to say, an living legend he was !
Holy glaze bro babe Ruth is ass. Bro was just a juiced up plumber playing against malnourished electricians. That nigga was shit
Golden eye, solid legs arms and form, and just raw power with that connection. What a sight!
Babe Ruth 7 time World Series Champion.
So effortlessly too
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The legend of major league baseball.
Even when he took batting practice every body stopped & watched.
Babe ruth hit monster homerun, hit baseballon the street & sidewalk
Ruth ruled the roost like no one before or since. 😊
The Goat 🐐 of Baseball as an Power Hitter who Hit for Average and as a Great Pitcher
Some of these pitches look like 40mph meat balls lol
Actually some players that could throw 90-100mph balls it just wasn’t as common as today look it up
Now those are some highlights.
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He can't seem to run that fast, that's why he had to settle with home runs so he can walk freely off the plate and back 😂
I realize that its projection but if he was a full time player his first 5 seasons he would have had over 900 homers and possibly 2800 rbi and nobody would have come close to those numbers
Ruth was an absolute monster at the plate with a 342 csreer batting average and minimal strikeouts at bat
His reflexes were cat quick and hand eye coordination had to be phenomenal
He was a sideshow within the game. An absolute freak that everyone had to catch a glimpse of. Who else LOVES real history?
About to eat a hotdog and drink a beer. Legend.
Nice job man
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Babe had underrated speed
The best all time!
not even close.
Definitely the best ever!
The best of all of time runs like that?
Babe was a legendary baseball player, his stats are proof of his greatness. Nobody has ever made an impact on the game of baseball as he has. Babe is the greatest baseball player of all time, followed by Ty Cobb
GOAT by far.
The greatest sports star and athlete the world has or will ever know.
Truth
came here after learning what he's diet was.... man, what a legend he will never die.
What was his diet
@@MitchWarren hot dogs and beer I think what a legend 😂😂😂
@@jantzenallen3077Yeah. However sadly nowadays baseball players wouldn’t ruin their athletic form for such a diet.
He was such a legend they even made candy and it's name baby Ruth
They used to smoke and drink in babes era way different times plus he would be the face of sports till this day if he still played
This y’all goat😭😂
happy birthday to Babe! 🥳
in heaven...
Babe is without betters!🐐
Love this guy
Watched Sandlot the other night & had to see for myself haha
Still the number one all times.
Best all time, Babe!
He does not need speed.. he HR a lot.. 😄
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He lowkey had good acceleration on a couple of clips
He never extends his leg😂😂😂
He's mainly known for his hitting but Ruth was a freaking ace too. Just for some # comparisons...
Babe Ruth - 2.28 (17th lowest of all time)
Kershaw - 2.48
Cy Young - 2.62
Pedro Martinez - 2.92
Greg Maddux - 3.16
Nolan Ryan - 3.19
Verlander 3.32
Although he only pitched like 5 years and then was moved to the outfield so that might have helped
Waye better hitters in today game and waye better pitchers
@@blackmag8120 in 100 years some fool, just like you, will say Tom Brady was nothing special too. Haters gonna hate, yet no one can replicate.
Babe Ruth was a one of a kind original superstar, being a great slugger and great pitcher, I can't think of anybody else who could hit and pitch like him
@@neilwattoo he isnt. he is a check down passer who plays on god squads. people call him humble for taking pay cuts but call kd a snake for taking pay cuts to play on better teams. he is a diva double standard in action.
Are my eyes deceiving me? Is Babe Ruth admiring his home runs?? All the "get off my lawn" people told me only modern players admired their home runs..Oh well ! Myth debunked
yes,..he's the one who invented that,..
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People like to say he wouldn’t be good now a days. But that swing is amongst the best in todays game. And he’s swinging 45 ounces of lumber. I think he’s be up there with Shohei in my opinion. Especially with the training now a days.
awesome
2:16 when he took off his hat that shit was so wholesome
Such a different time. Big fat guy running around out there, sometimes hungover, sometimes half drunk after going from the bar straight to games. Just a totally different world thats hard to fathom nearly 100 years later. Mlb is such a big, refined, serious business now that it was not back then.
You didn't hear of anyone else back then even come close to his numbers so yeah he was that good.
I know hes one of the greatest of all time but I just can't do picture him doing so well in today's game, wouldn't know what to do with the pitchers and speed of it now
We’ll that’s the same for almost all sports
Goes both ways though. Imagine babe Ruth with today’s technology. Better training, better diets, etc.
@@MrThemanofspeed exactly. If the guy could hit a ball that far that many times with none of the benefits of modern nutrition, weight training, coaching etc. imagine what he could do with all of the modern advantages.
Hey ,Frank, they threw just as hard back then, and the game was a lot tougher. He would be better today.
They threw hard back then ,man, do not kid yourself.
Good stuff Ruth
What great times those were
Amazing how his swing was…. Sort the whole body moves forward with power
8:24
Moments like that make me realize he was the greatest to play the game. In all the right ways.
Babe Ruth was/is America.
The Babe is the greatest baseball player ever no doubt the year he hit 60 home runs he batted 356 The year he hit 59 he batted 380
ohtani
@@ravdeepbhullar1448 ha haha haha hahahahaha
@@jimmyolsen5897 Whats so funny jimmy?
@@ravdeepbhullar1448 Compare Ohtani’s record to Babe Ruth record your last two Babe, Ruth’s lifetime batting average 342
@@jimmyolsen5897 You have to look at the level of competition though. The average pitching speed in the Babe Ruth era was 70mph, in the Ohtani era its 92mph, and theres a lot more variety in terms of the types of pitches thrown nowadays because guys are more skilled
He’s shaped and runs like my dad. Lol
He ran like he was on his way to the last clue to the mystery
"well that's why he is on our candy bars"
His run though lol 😭😂😂
I would love to go through a time machine and go to one of those games.
How many people are here because of shohei?
Wish we could see his pitching highlights
The Greatest
People. These players don't look like they can compete to the guy's in the show today because it was 100 years ago. Nobody has ever dominated any sport the way Babe Ruth dominated his era. He was ahead of his time and with the way things are setup in professional sports now there will never be an athlete this dominant again... Ever.
wilt chamberlain?????
micheal jordan
Shoehei ohtani
Shohei Ohtani+superior at pitching.
Wayne Gretzky?
Legend
Watching these highlights I'm convinced *I* could've hit 714 back then.
Babe Ruth, the GOAT :)
The hat company was making a killing that year :)
Una gran leyenda Babe Ruth
For as great as he was i didnt expect him to have the speed of a turtle😅💪🏾
I'll be honest I never thought babe could last in today's game but with proper training he definitely could, he wouldn't be the top 5-10 hitter he is now but he had remarkably similar mechanics to barry bonds but without a leg kick, its actually astounding how he had such good timing without any load gathering
His timing was just incredible. -Ty Cobb on Ruth.
Everyone says he couldn’t and the pitching was awful, but he was still doing something in the game no one had done before or could during his whole career and for decades after. There’s no way that raw talent would fail him in the bigs today.
@@Tennischamp450 He would have to make a few adjustments and adopt a better training regimen but his talent as both pitcher abs batter was so exceptional that there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t be huge star if he played today. His eye-hand coordination was incredible. He’d probably have to use a lighter bat against todays faster pitching. Maybe shorten his swing a bit.
@The Angry Grizzly I agree the game is garbage today but I don’t think the pitching is inferior. In fact, pitchers today throw harder than they did years ago. I think the problem is that the game is now all about power pitching and power hitting. There are fewer balls put in play. More strikeouts, more walks, more home runs. Fewer singles. I think they should move the pitchers mound back a few feet to compensate.
Nah he would his batting would carry him but these pitchers ain’t those pitchers
The greatest ball player of all time runs like my 3 year old.
@The Time Traveler is babe ruth still alive? Thought not.
@@chris36502 what does that mean
Wow he’s pretty good
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He should go play in the mlb or something
The greats are going to be great in any era because they could adapt to changing strategies and still excel.
So much of the footage is when Ruth was playing in the old timers circuit.
He did it on beer and hot dogs. Not drugs like Mark and Sammy and Barry. Babe had class.
Cecil Fielders swing reminds of Ruth’s a bit. The hand movement and step towards the ball are similar. I almost wonder if Cecil had seen Babe’s swing and took inspiration from it. Probably not since seeing footage of Ruth’s swing was hard to come by in the 80s. But it would make sense since they both had similar builds and power.
They did not have similar power. Fielder is a far, far, cry from Ruth.
@@Grizzlied555 By saying similar power I meant both were in the top one percent of power hitters of there day and both played similar roles in the batting order for there teams. But even so have you seen how many times Cecil left Tiger stadium and other stadiums ? Cecil can’t be that far behind Ruth in terms of pure power. People can sometimes get a bit carried away with estimating the abilities of legends like Ruth decades after he played. I would agree Ruth probably had more overall power than Cecil but I don’t think the difference in power is as huge as people might think. Rewatch some of Cecil’s homerun highlights. Some of the longest homeruns ever hit on film without the aide of steroids. Plus Cecil was one of the few players pre steroids to hit 50 homers in a single season.
Watching the Sandlot is what made me discover and want to know more about Babe Ruth if I’m being honest. He was before my time but so glad ‘The Sandlot’ made audiences remember. That movie was more or less a dedication to Babe Ruth’s greatness.
Dude looked like he pulled a double at the local gas station before the game.
Real question: how good was the pitching back in the day? Was it noticeably easier or harder at all?
Pitchers were throwing around 90 mph in the 20s, crazy enough the bats back then were closer to 40 ounces.
they served up meatballs down the middle or the occasional garbage offspeed. the spin rate, velocity, movement of todays sinkers sliders alone would have him batting exactly zero at the plate.. maybe .0001 if he adjusted the huge drop of the hands before the swing, unathletic stance
The only reason we pitch harder today is because of #1 Technique and #2 Nutrition. Players back then were much sturdier and tougher, they played injured and exhausted. I'd say the average fastball was about 4-6 mph slower than nowadays. Still, the Babe was a big guy (6'2) and could swing that 40oz bat like it was a twig. He also had insane weight distribution mechanics in his swing. The momentum he built in that front foot step & swing was responsible for 714 of his homeruns.
Best all time.
Totally true.
His swing mechanics remind me of a falling tree. By golly
=3:55 From Bill Jeckinson's book, "Babe Ruth: Against all odds, world's mightiest slugger" . April 7th, 1935 in Newark, New Jersey. Ruppert Stadium. Corners in deepest left and right were 430 feet from home plate.
NY Times: "the ball sailed over the heads of the bleacherites, clearing the farthest corner in right field by 50 feet and landing in the street behind the park. It was the longest drive ever made out of Ruppert Stadium"
NY Times: 500 feet estimate
Newark Evening News: 450 plus estimate and added "Ruth himself believes it was close to 500 feet and he said after the game that he had never hit a ball harder"
Boston Globe: "fully 500 feet"
NY Herald Tribune: "almost 500 feet"
Boston Post "well over 500 feet"
Boston Herald "at least 500 feet"
Brooklyn Eagle "525 feet"