Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig's Epic Rivalry
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Through their time on the New York Yankees, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth set records and won World Series together. But between them there was bad blood. Journey through Ruth and Gehrig's beginnings at Columbia and the Boston Red Sox to their ends at Yankee Stadium.
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My dad went to the Babes funeral at Yankee stadium. He was in the coast guard stationed at Ellis Island hospital. He remembered that day and told me about the experience 60 years later.
Ruth got disowned by his parents and put in a foster home. By 7 years old he was already chewing tobacco, gambling and drinking whiskey. He’s from the same neighborhood as Gervonta Davis.
I think he already hit 85 homers and drove in 275 runs by that age also while smoking in the batter's box and putting his beer mug on the mound while pitching.
Great video 👏
Actually Cal's streak ended when I went on strike...
Good strategy for clicks. No way they didn't speak for 7 years. Gherig didn't have the type of personality that would inspire that type of lasting animosity.
Shelby Foote tells a story of meeting them when they were roommates in a hotel, I don't think they would share a room if they disliked each other or perhaps it was prior to their dispute .
Also I had to put my glasses on to clarify that you typed 'Clicks'
@littleblackduck3134 From all reports Gherig was a decent kind gentle person. He was quiet but friendly.
@gregoryphillips3969 again one story I read, was Ruth made a (drunken) pass at Eleanor. Something like that would piss off Gandhl
Good video! (Except for the Lakers clips and the over-extended unfunny joke about the different teams Ruth was traded to - sorry). But a few corrections. Christy Mathewson was never boring -especially in the 1920s. He retired in 1916. The Yankee manager was Joe McCarthy not "Joe McCartney". Ruth's single season home run record stood for 34 years, not 40. You imply upon Ruth's death that Yankee Stadium would "come to be known as" The House That Ruth Built. It actually was referred to as that from the day it opened in 1923.
He picked your grandma up before games and had his way with her 😂😂😂
It's because they were lovers
Lou Gehrig was also born into a working class family. He just made good of himself.
The candy Bar baby Ruth can actually be traced to president Gorver Cleveland’s first born daughter named Ruth I believe.
He did have a candy bar, though. It was called Ruth’s Home Run Candy Bar.
@@nian_purkhard kinda like the Reggie bar
No, They named it Baby Ruth and then lied and said it was named after the former presidents daughter. They did this so they didn't have to pay a licensing fee to the Babe.
Lou Gehrig - my favorite New York Yankee of all time!
More than Horace Clark???
@@littleblackduck3134 Yes, Lou Gehrig is my favorite Yankee. Even more than Horace Clark!
@georgearthur304 yes, Gehrig and Mickey are my favorite too
Babe Ruth was such a great pitcher that during his 15-season tenure with the New York Yankees, (1920-1934), He had pitched in five games and low and behold "The Babe" won all five games for a 5-0 pitching record for the Yankees! Fact. Everything "The Babe did was great! Everything that he did was BIG! "The Babe" literally eat life up! The Legend of Big-Fat "Babe" Ruth will never die! Babe Ruth was baseball, Is baseball, and always will be BASEBALL ⚾!!!!
Just came across your channel and I love it. Two of my favorite players along with Clemente and Vlad Guerrero. Ive always felt that Gehrig was number 2 or 3 all time best hitters because for most of his short career and life he batted behind Ruth and then DiMaggio and won his two MVP's doing so. Batted over .300 12x in a row, 8 times in the top 5 in MVP voting. 13x over 100 runs , 8x over 200 hits, 8x over 400 TB won 2 MVP and if it wasn't for Jimmie Foxx in '32 and '33 and being overlooked during his Triple crown year of '34 he could have had 5 MVP.
The Sultan of Swat and The Pride of the Yankees playing together was beyond historic. Two members of the greatest baseball team of all time: 1927 New York Yankees Murderers Row!! My great-grandpa was a lucky guy who watched them play together live during that magical season! The absolute best two Yankees ever!!
Then there are the barnstorming days. While on a boat to Japan, Gehrig ends up having to search for Eleanor for an extensive period of time, only to find her in Ruths room. Although just partying (and I believe Ruths wife was there as well) this obviously upset the Iron Horse enough to hold a serious grudge against The Babe.
That's one story , I also read Ruth made a pass at Gehrig's wife
That's what I had read as well. They were good friends up until this point and Lou, knowing Babe's reputation with girls, didn't buy that there was nothing going on. These two had polar opposite personalities and it would rankle Gehrig that he would do everything to be a good teammate and yet the public responded more to Ruth who barely could remember his teammate's names. Everybody was "kid".
MICKEY MANTLE'S SPEECH I OFTEN WONDERED HOW A MAN THAT KNEW HE WAS DYING COULD SAY HE WAS LUCKIEST MAN IN THE WHOLE WORLD NOW I KNOW BEAUTIFUL WORDS FROM ONE OG TO ANOTHER. IT'S ENOUGH TO BRING A TEAR TO A GLASS EYE.
Fun fact
The bat Ruth uses as a cane in that famous pitcher belonged to Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller.
Dude, you’re not funny. Just tell the story.
Epic
Are we sure about this? Seven years? You are just messing around.
1932 to 1939.
Did he play the piano?
Ruth is looking a little “colored” isn’t he ?
He had a nickname I'm not going to repeat
babe ruth goat
4:33 Funny.
It seems like these two were good guy/bad guy.
It's been said that McCovey and Mays weren't all that close to each other, and they sat in different luxury suites at AT & T , now Oracle, in their retirement years as spectators to Giants games.
Gehrig was born with the name Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig. His parents changed it to Henry Louis Gehrig during WWI.
Gehrig's mother hated living in Germany. At 16 she ran away from home and sailed to America without knowing anyone over here. His father, like in the movie, was a layabout.
No such thing as karma, Ruth drunk & treated his body terribly. Gehrig did everything right gets ALS...
Ruth died of throat cancer, likely from excessive cigars. No such thing as karma? And the idea that Ruth didn’t take care of himself has been vastly exaggerated. He was one of the first athletes to hire a personal trainer
The fairness or unfairness of life.
@@michaelhudson863 That might have been at the beginning of his career, but towards the end he was at least 30 to 40 lbs overweight. Back when there were still bench jockeys, Ruth would get derided mercilessly about his weight...most famously in the WS v the Cubs in 1932. Also - one of the reasons Frazee traded him away from the Red Sox is that they literally had no idea if he was going to show up to the game or not. The Sox would hire detectives to track him down and on numerous occasions found him sleeping off a hangover in an alley somewhere. He missed 1/2 season due to "stomach problems" which was actually VD.
@@frogger1952 wow- missed an entire season and still managed 25 home runs that year
@@michaelhudson863 Corrected. Missed 1/2 season.
Great video
Instead of showing the same 12 pictures we've looked at for the past 100 years, you put video of Shaq and Kobi.....I appreciate that
This is amazing