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Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig at batting practice (video)
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:16 pm
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:16 pm
Taken by Fox Movietone sound cameras on April 11, 1931. This is rare footage of two of the greatest to ever play the game with actual sound.
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Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:19 pm to RollTide1987
That's awesome.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:20 pm to RollTide1987
very cool. gehrig looks pretty big
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:23 pm to RollTide1987
Ruth didmt look near as fat as people make him out to be. His hips and hand speed you can tell are pro caliber. The way they both attack the baseball shows me they would excel in any era. They made would have to make a few minor adjustments to their stance or approach but the raw tools are obviously there
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:23 pm to RollTide1987
Lou was fluid. Babe just leans in hard 
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:23 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
quote:and here we go
Ruth didmt look near as fat as people make him out to be. His hips and hand speed you can tell are pro caliber. The way they both attack the baseball shows me they would excel in any era.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:28 pm to RollTide1987
Love that guys channel.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:29 pm to WestCoastAg
A couple of things...the type of swing was way different different back in those days. It's almost a running swing. Second...that has to be the worst batting practice pitching coach of all time. My god...throw a strike man!!
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:32 pm to RollTide1987
feels like i stepped back in time
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:33 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
quote:
His hips and hand speed you can tell are pro caliber
yea, some say ruth could play pro
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:52 pm to RollTide1987
never realized how close Ruth's legs were together in his stance
Posted on 1/14/19 at 7:57 pm to LSUMJ
Ruth comments on his bats
"In my first three years as a fielder, following five or six years of pitching, I used bats 36 inches long and anywhere from 40 to 54 ounces in weight. I then began experimenting with the length, and found out what I should have known all along, that I could do better with a shorter bat. So I switched to 35 inches and sometimes slightly less in the twelve or thirteen years that followed.
Going to the shorter bat was one of my best moves, and I have wondered many times since why any player would bother with swinging a stick an inch or two longer than was absolutely necessary.
My idea on weight is that you should use a bat as heavy as you can handle. If you can swing a bat weighing, say, 38 ounces as fast as one weighing 35 ounces, you're bound to get a longer hit. What's more, you get real solid timber in the heavier bats, and that, too, adds to driving power.
"In my first three years as a fielder, following five or six years of pitching, I used bats 36 inches long and anywhere from 40 to 54 ounces in weight. I then began experimenting with the length, and found out what I should have known all along, that I could do better with a shorter bat. So I switched to 35 inches and sometimes slightly less in the twelve or thirteen years that followed.
Going to the shorter bat was one of my best moves, and I have wondered many times since why any player would bother with swinging a stick an inch or two longer than was absolutely necessary.
My idea on weight is that you should use a bat as heavy as you can handle. If you can swing a bat weighing, say, 38 ounces as fast as one weighing 35 ounces, you're bound to get a longer hit. What's more, you get real solid timber in the heavier bats, and that, too, adds to driving power.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:00 pm to RollTide1987
Not saying they couldn’t hit in today’s game. Obviously hand eye coordination is a God given talent. But they would have to make some significant changes to their mechanics to hit today’s pitching.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:00 pm to Jones
My first thought was Gehrig looks pretty big. Also noticed how bad the BP pitcher was.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:04 pm to JakeMik
Their raw power is clearly there. However, they would have to make big time adjustments to their balance in order to hit today’s pitching. It’s weird seeing how their feet are constantly moving. And babe almost sticks his arse out when he swings
This post was edited on 1/14/19 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:04 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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They made would have to make a few minor adjustments to their stance or approach but the raw tools are obviously there
For fricks sake
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:07 pm to RollTide1987
I love the difference in the sound of the bat.
Buck O'Neil said that in his long lifetime of playing and watching baseball the only players he ever heard that made a crack of the bat like that were Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson.
And Lou Gherig was a horse. Dude was thick and muscular before anybody was working out. He had a job before baseball hauling ice blocks up tenement buildings to customers with iron ice tongs.
Buck O'Neil said that in his long lifetime of playing and watching baseball the only players he ever heard that made a crack of the bat like that were Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson.
And Lou Gherig was a horse. Dude was thick and muscular before anybody was working out. He had a job before baseball hauling ice blocks up tenement buildings to customers with iron ice tongs.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:09 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:09 pm to lsupride87
quote:
However, they would have to make big time adjustments to their balance in order to hit today’s pitching.
Babe would have to use a lighter bat. Modern players tried to hit with an old vintage Ruth bat and they couldn't hit shite.
But Babe did use a lighter bat as he got older but the majority of his bats are 38-42 ounces...and he had one bat early in his career that was 54 ounces and 36 inches long.
Posted on 1/14/19 at 8:10 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Buck O'Neil said that in his long lifetime of playing and watching baseball the only players he ever heard that made a crack of the bat like that were Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson.
O'Neil later added Bo Jackson to that list after having a chance to watch his batting practice in KC.
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