Babe Ruth in Color - 1920 Yankees vs Cleveland (60fps and Colorized)
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- Опубліковано 25 гру 2022
- Colorized and 60FPS. Aspect ratio maintained for quality purposes. The original film was silent. Sound design added for ambiance.
Summary of the film: The mighty swing of Babe Ruth is shown in all its grace, power and swatness through the use of slow motion. He is also seen striking out in normal speed. The batting skills of Cleveland Indians star Tris Speaker and New York Yankees Wallie Pipp, Yankee Robert William Meusel, the underhand pitching style of Yankee Carl Mays and the overhand pitching delivery of the Yankee Jack Quinn are also displayed through slow motion. Fans are shown entering and leaving the Cleveland Indians stadium. Some of the action of the game between the Yankees and Indians is presented in both normal speed and slow motion.
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These old news reel videos tend to get many facts wrong. Bob Meusel and Wally Pipp are reversed at one point, and Babe Ruth gets jammed and hits a foul ball that they claim is a home run. Nonetheless, it's interesting to see these guys in color, no?
Yeah... I definitely thought Ruth's HR was a foul ball. Looks to me like the pitch jammed him and he hit it near the bottom (wrist side) of the bat.
@@Colorized-History yep, it's very interesting to see what baseball was like 100 years ago
Yes, looked foul to me.
Pipp was replaced when he was ill by a guy named Gehrig.....The rest is history.
@@harlow743 Ahhh, beat me to it. I just commented about that headache Wally Pipp got on June 2nd, 1945. The most expensive headache in Baseball lol.
The players themselves rolling out the tarp ! Awesome
For some reason multi-millionaires don't want to do it.
@@mikebronicki8264 crybabies.
Maybe the billionaires should go down there and help out. They seem to only come down to the field is when they accept a ring they had nothing to do with earning
@@jlopez1632 Well, they did risk a crap-load of money on the business...
If you say that about people who put up tons of money what do you say about the people who destroy the city after a victory? @jlopez1632
Customize the playback speed to 70% and you get normal human movement. 👍
Thanks 🙏
*Hilarious that some people think Babe Ruth’s swing would play in todays game*
@@strongestnattyever-videos2247it wouldn’t, he’s too slow
I did some research and the date matches up to June 15, 1920. The catcher Hannah only played with the Yankees until 1920. There is a pickoff play at 3rd base at 5:14 which matches the play by play. The Indians won 10-2.
That's awesome, thanks. I'll change the title. Did you notice how Meusel and Pipp are reversed? Did you notice how they tried to pass off Ruth's foul ball as a HR? Very lazy stuff!
The subdued colorization works very well. Fascinating to watch an earlier iteration of major league baseball.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks. I have three Detroit Tiger (circa 1930s) videos posting over the next few weeks. They came out nice.
I enjoyed the fans strolling on to the field after the ballgame. One of those tiny nuances that represented a simpler time, when arguably people were more connected.
I don’t think that’s even an argument.
Connected? There wasn't even phones... People couldn't connect to anyone outside talking distance...
Yes they had carrier pigeons but they were highly unionized and took forever, plus they always migrated south in the winter, so long annual holidays were demanded by union sanctions. Oh the humanity!...
@@v4v819 Exactly! No one is truly connected unless they see status updates of 900 casual acquaintances they don’t even care about. That’s real, genuine connection! How could carrier pigeons even let you argue politics with your aunt that lives 5 states away.
@@billmcnealofwnyxnewyork464 People are more socially responsible and caring of others now then any time in human history... If you doubt this then look at how people treated each other in the past compared to now... Also back even in the 1920's, people would drown their babies and leave their grand parents to die in the streets... True story!
@@v4v819 Yeah, now they just abort their babies and leave their elders in underfunded facilities and forget about them. The world is FAR less community driven than it used to be. I guess “not even being an argument” is a little off, but the irony of the internet is that it made us all more distant and uncaring, with the illusion of being close.
Good ol' League Park in Cleveland. 66th & Lexington. I played catch on that Field. At that time the only thing that was left was the ticket office in right field. Lots of history there. Babe Ruth hit homer number 500. The only unassisted triple play in World Series history. Gives me chills
That's League Park; home to the Indians until 1946. LF 375 ' CF 460' RF 290' Capacity 22,500 also home to the Cleveland Spiders! The ticket office building is still there as a baseball museum.
Thank you. I was wondering what ball park that was.
Cleveland Spiders - probably the worst team EVER in MLB history .
@@chrisosieczanek8281 They were actually pretty good but the owner traded off all the good players for cash.
@@chrisosieczanek8281yes worst all time % 👌
Was this footage before or after Carl Mays hit Ray Chapman in the head and killed him?
Over 100 years ago, this is wonderful and fascinating to watch, thank you for posting!
It sure is. And somewhere in the country during this, there's a 3 year old racehorse named Man o' War making history.
@@jeffgarmon1 And the 1920 presidential campaign is in full swing, and my dad, who was later in World War Two was born in October of 1920.
Not quite a century, son... This was actually in 1920, so over 80 years ago! Nice try there boi!!!!!!!
It's ok if everyone isn't as perfect as you.
@@v4v819 it’s 2024, so yes, a century ago.
Although the commentary is a little bit off it's wonderful to see the old school players in color. Tris Speaker and the Babe. It could not be better than that.
This is a very peculiar video when viewed through a modern lense , you have moments where it’s been edited in a way where it leads you to believe you’re looking at a base hit from Speaker or a homer by Ruth when in reality it cuts to them taking batting practice hacks , and it’s just funny because I wonder if the people who would have went to the theater and watched this kind of footage even knew any better . But still gold nonetheless
WONDERFUL PRICELESS FOOTAGE. SO ENJOYABLE TO WATCH!!!
Wow. That’s amazing to see this. Great job restoring this. This is a special treat to see the great Babe when he was so young . A very successful pitcher for Red Sox in the World Series
Young babe Ruth could've hit any pitch in the strike zine in those day
The lack of hitting technique makes me think I could've been big babe back then lmaoi
That batting stance was hard to look at haha
You couldn't be dick back then... You weren't even born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Without protective gear or helmets. Good luck. That was pure baseball.
@@staceejaxx1969I mean you didn’t really need it that much since at most they were topping out at 80 mph
In modern movies Ruth is always portrayed as this hulking sorta fat guy... Joe Don Baker in The Natural, John Goodman in The Babe, etc. These films reveal Ruth to be a big guy but not fat or overweight by any means.
I HATE, HATE, HATE the way Goodman portrayed the Babe. A terrible film.
This film was 1920, his second ? season with the Yankees and at the start still of his career. I think he filled out his weight a little later in his career.
He's overweight for 1920s standards. He looks thin in this video because most Americans are obese now.
He was a great great athlete.
The Greatest Baseball player of all time.
I love the step through style of hitting
Looks like mens softball today, no way they are catching up to 90 plus fastballs with that.
Watch the video at 0.75x speed, it makes it far more realistic
Amazing how they had slow mo cameras
I found that amazing, too.
I remember this game. Tickets were cheap.
Pretty cool that attendees could just walk out of the park on the field after the game was over.
We can do better... We can run on the field naked! Beat that old timers...
Carl Mays (the underhand pitcher) killed a batter (Ray Chapman) with a beanball a few months later, Aug 1920.
Wow, what great videos of the past when they're colorized! It adds a touch of dreamy nostalgia. The fact that they're silent also hits the memory lane scenario.❤
Ruth trying to crush it every time up to bat. The discipline at the plate is hilarious.
Wonderful video !👏👌. More please !
This is so amazing to see thank you. It's so funny that they mention the "follow through swing" incredible lol
This is super cool to watch a century late.
Babe looked a lot less slender compared to a decade later
Dang, born 60 years earlier I’d been to the show as a pitcher, topped out in college ball. .
I love this stuff...thanks for posting
Thank you for such a gem of a video with the newsreel footage of League Park (E. 66th St. and Lexington Avenue) and the 1920 Yankees with the Mighty Ruth and the Cleveland Indians (Guardians). Revelations never cease do they? A history buff's dream for sure.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing!
Incredible!! Thank you so much!
Glad you liked it!
I find old film footage from pre-1950 to be so interesting. It doesn’t matter what subject, really. I just like the early TV and film era.
Same. I focus on baseball because I love it, but I do all kinds of stuff. Check out the photos especially since I hand color those and they therefore come out better.
Amazing footage. That was very enjoyable to watch.
Very cool. Thanx for the upload👍
This is a June 15, 1920, game that the Indians won 10-2. Two months later, the submarine pitcher shown, the Yankees' Carl Mays, would throw the fateful pitch that killed the Indians' Ray Chapman. Same two teams, but in Yankee Stadium. Cleveland would win the pennant and World Series without their star shortstop. Also, the pitcher striking out Babe Ruth is Jim Bagby, who won 31 games that year.
The 1920 Cleveland INDIANS were to win the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers that year. A great team in the history of MLB.
Sadly their SS, Ray Chapman will die after being hit on the head by a pitch. Sad, very sad.
On August 16 Chapman was struck on the temple by a pitch from the same Carl Mays and died 12 hours later.
Just imagine how good these players would have been if they had decent baseball gloves back in the day? Hard to believe no one ever thought of making the gloves big enough to catch a baseball in.
It was Yankee pitcher Mays(with the submarine delivery)whose beaning of Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman fractured his skull and caused his death. This happened on August 16, 1920 at the Polo Grounds.
The same year Babe Ruth had the strikeout record, he also had the home run record.
Notice Willie Pippen licking his fingers? And The Lil' Rascals shagging a home run ball?
Great Film Colorized History! Thanks! Wisht' I'd bin there.
Amazing footage
This entire video is just fascinating. I think the most fascinating thing is watching the footwork of the batters. Like, how do they hit anything? 😂
Some pitchers were throwing underhand. None of them threw as hard as today.
This was also fresh out of the Dead Ball Era when most people who weren't Babe cared more about hitting the ball to anywhere the fielders weren't than hitting the ball out of sight.
BTW the man at first base @7:36 is Wally Pipp....who sat out one day on June 2, 1925 because of a headache. Baseball was never the same again...and neither were the Yankees.
So cool. Is crazy how they leveled the swing plane.
Good stuff, especially the slow-motion pitching.
Thanks for your reply and for your prompt
that was fantastic , the Babe slim and trim and all muscle belts on out
League Park in Cleveland. The building right at the start of the video still stands.
This was played in League Park in Cleveland. Municipal Stadium opened in 1931.
Literally every 3rd comment is saying that.
@@ironnads7975 Not really, but thanks for the comment.
fantastic.
Super cool
Amazing how they walked up to hit the ball…and everyone pitched in to help with the field ,along with using gloves to trap the ball on grounders..
amazing how much faster everyone was back then.
I like the tarp footage!
Everyone seems to get a kick out of that. I honestly didn't even notice it, but it's funny.
"While Babe demonstrates his 'follow through' swing" Video cuts off halfway through swing.
Watching Babe and the others literally take a step towards the mound before swinging confirms the pitching back then is no where close to what it is today.
A lot of evidence suggests mid 80s was considered dominant heat.
That makes no sense.
Imagine Babe Ruth with today’s hyper-specialized training from adolescence. He’d still be as dominant.
If you look carefully several shots from the Polo Grounds in NY can also be seen in this film.
x0.75 playback is right speed for me.
The MLB parks of the 1920's were made for lefthand hitters. The lines were comical. I saw some as short as 255 feet. Can you imagine pull hitters of today playing in those parks? They'd be hitting 80 to 100 home runs a year. Every pop fly down the line is going out. I coached 13-15 year old boys baseball back in the day. We played in parks bigger than those 1920's MLB parks. High school kids today play on fields with much longer dimensions down the line.
That's undoubtedly true, but some of those older parks had very deep center fields. The Polo Grounds was 483 to dead center (most of the outfield was 450). Old Yankee Stadium was 490 to dead center. I don't think the older hitters were pulling the ball very much either.
.75 playback speed, you’re welcome
Wow, imagine being one of those kids finding a Babe Ruth home run ball!
Great natural speed---wonderful, thank you...
.75 Playback speed is perfect
Gotta watch this at 50-75% speed to see it somewhat realistic.
League Park Cleveland?
Never made clear in description.
Love seeing them live, nevertheless the speed can be modified to have them shown in normal movement, love this in color 👍
These guys could play, gloves were crap, but they still were Great fielders, the bats they used were heavy as hell and look at the numbers these great players put up against spitballs, shine balls, and other illegal pitches.
Hall of fame. Color sports
Cool to see historical footage. Man, that right field fence must be around 250' away.
The atmosphere was thicker back then though... So the ball you could hear cut through the air... That's also why everything looks like slow motion in the olden days... Where's a gravity swell when you need one! Cheers...
@@v4v819 the atmosphere wasn’t thicker back then what are you smoking, it looks slower because it’s an old camera
Man I bet u back then sports was amazing and respectful
It's a wonder more players didn't get killed from being hit in the head by pitched balls back then (just one player, Ray Chapman, died that way, from a pitch thrown in a game later in the 1920 season by Carl Mays, who's shown here.) Helmets were first worn in the National League in 1940, but I can't believe MLB did not strictly enforce wearing of helmets league-wide until 1970 -- a full 50 years after Chapman's death. And even then, there were players who were grandfathered in.
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Babe is saying: "I don't care if I struck out or not. I still had a better year than the President of the United States!"
View at 75% speed for normal motion.
I'm delighted like everybody (and I understand now that the "home run" swing foul ball was legitimately a display of Ruth's home run swing). I don't understand why this "1year ago" video has 184 comments (edit: almost) all posted today.
I think Willie Mays death triggered the algo to recommend my restoration of a different video from that time period, and then people found this one.
There’s an old movie called pride of the Yankees the life story of Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth comes in that movie the real Babe Ruth
Always wondered why no modern player has attempted to adopt Ruth’s extremely closed footed/slide forward batting stance…
coupled with pulling the front foot out and pirouetting around in a circle? Pretty sure Ruth couldn't imitate 2 swings exactly twice in a row. Looked like terrible form to me.
Because you can't hit like that today. Pitchers throw way harder and have a lot more different pitch types in their arsenal.
Having viewed many (black & white) vintage clips of Ruth’s home run swings, his success in making consistent contact (against a variety of pitches including “spitballs”, “mud balls”, etc.) was phenomenal! His Lifetime Batting Average of over .340 should encourage today’s less successful batters to experiment by emulating the “Sultan of Swat’s” approach to hitting!
Ray Chapman of the Indians is the only MLB player to ever die as a result of a baseball injury. In a game played just a couple of months after this one, Chapman was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays -- the submariner shown warming up at 5:35. Chapman was taken to a New York hospital but died the next day due to complications from a severe compound skull fracture. I wrote a book about early 20th century baseball where I went into some detail about the incident. I've included a little of that below if anyone's interested.
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Mays, already disliked by many for his surly nature, was for years vilified by players across the league, with many suggesting he intentionally hit Chapman (Mays, who died in 1971, always insisted he did not.) It didn't help that Chapman, unlike Mays, was immensely popular among teammates and opponents alike -- he was a gregarious young man whom everyone liked, including, of all people, Ty Cobb -- who didn't like anybody. Cobb, in fact, was one of Mays' more outspoken critics, and said publicly on more than one occasion that someone should bean Mays (no one ever did, as far as I know.)
The death of Chapman didn't seem to affect Mays' pitching ability much. He played another nine years in the league (15 total), finished with a record of 205-126, and had a lifetime ERA of 2.96. Despite plenty of pitchers making the Hall of Fame with similar numbers, he was never elected, probably for a combination of reasons, including allegations -- unsubstantiated though they were -- that he threw the 1921 World Series, where the Giants beat the Yankees 5 games to 3 (it was a best-of-9 series that year.)
After Chapman's death, the league instituted a new rule that game balls had to be switched out with new ones whenever they got dirty (pitchers regularly scuffed, spat on and dirtied the ball so much, it was often hard for the batters to see -- which is likely what happened with Chapman, as he didn't flinch before being hit.) Spitballs and the use of sandpaper and other tools to cut or otherwise doctor the ball were also officially banned. Of course, everyone scoffed at what I believe should have been the obvious and common-sense response to Chapman's death -- and it took another 50 years before the use of batting helmets was strictly enforced across Major League Baseball.
Their front leg stride, when hitting the ball, was vastly bigger back then. Seems like you lose power with that big of a stride
Tris Speaker's swing in that reel had him way to far out on his front foot rolling his hands over top.....He would have grounded out to third off the end of his bat, or popped up to the catcher.
The coolest part was watching the players.roll the tarp on and off, as opposed to a grounds crew.
Never knew the Babe was ever this thin.
amazing that slow-mo was better a hundred years ago
lol.
That wasn't slow motion... Everything was slower back in the olden days! That's real time then but now it's considered slow...
I like how some batters would take a couple steps forward when they would swing.
Yeah, it almost looks like softball. I think that was inspired by the weight of the bats (~60oz), if I remember correctly. They'd definitely have to adjust today as that would not fly.
Those batting stances almost look like they are taking a step forward towards the pitcher, like a happy Gilmore swing.
The Earth was tilted more forward back then so it was hard to not be pushed forward by the shifting axis!
Im 32 and I never knew babe ruth was left handed 😮
I'm 37 and I've known that since you were born
He could switch hit, just like your father... Another thing you didn't know...
If you watch closely, you'll see that the players don't have numbers on their jerseys. The batting styles would astound batting coaches today, and the pitchers with their sticky fingers and 'dead ball', don't give up a lot of deep hits or fly balls.
Numbers were assigned according to position on the field, that's why the Yankees have all single digit numbers retired.
In today's game most of these hitters hits would be illegal
I think center guy at 3:04 is (still) the all time leader in doubles. Tris Speaker. I may be wrong
"Check out his perfect form swing," bangs the ball into the dirt. LOL
I didn’t know that there was tv footage from that far back.
there isn't
News reels, shown as part of a day at the movies..like all day for a quarter.
So they had replay/review tech in the 20s
4:49 Babe gets roasted. 😂
Poor Wallie Pipp, just stay healthy dude.
Pretty cool to see the only pitcher in mlb hitory to kill a man with a pitch go up against Babe Ruth.
I've never seen a catcher stand up and catch, lol
Too bad there isn't some way to add a bit more definition and contrast, it almost appears as if they were playing in fog.
Im amazed at how they had the camera situated on the street to catch the knot hole gang chasing the homerun ball into the yard.
A baseball propaganda film.
Still loved it.
Now I realize that Ohtani is the GOAT!
How much do you think it hurt their hands to catch a particularly hard throw?
8:24 No reason to climb that fence there, kid.
...kids
7:26 Yes, he was safe.