Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig's Epic Rivalry

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@georgearthur304 Жыл бұрын

Lou Gehrig - my favorite New York Yankee of all time!

@littleblackduck3134 6 ай бұрын

More than Horace Clark???

@georgearthur304 6 ай бұрын

@@littleblackduck3134 Yes, Lou Gehrig is my favorite Yankee. Even more than Horace Clark!

@littleblackduck3134 6 ай бұрын

@georgearthur304 yes, Gehrig and Mickey are my favorite too

@steed3902 7 ай бұрын

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.

@davidlopez533 3 ай бұрын

Wow! That's crazy!

@steed3902 3 ай бұрын

@@davidlopez533 he would have gone to the game were the Babe gave his famous speech, but sadly that game wasn't free to servicemen. my father (on the GI bill) could only afford the free events. haha

@davidlopez533 3 ай бұрын

@@steed3902 at least he went to the funeral lol

@Stacey_-bf2mb Жыл бұрын

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.

@Whyidontkno 8 ай бұрын

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.

@madaman6556 3 ай бұрын

Gross, what a terrible comparison from his neighborhood

@peterchoe Жыл бұрын

Lou Gehrig was also born into a working class family. He just made good of himself.

@nikolaivista920 Жыл бұрын

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!!

@jacobpatterson9143 9 ай бұрын

The candy Bar baby Ruth can actually be traced to president Gorver Cleveland’s first born daughter named Ruth I believe.

@RodFerroIGB 7 ай бұрын

He did have a candy bar, though. It was called Ruth’s Home Run Candy Bar.

@steed3902 7 ай бұрын

@@RodFerroIGB kinda like the Reggie bar

@henrywallacesghost5883 5 ай бұрын

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.

@chiefslinginbeef3641 2 ай бұрын

@@henrywallacesghost5883 George Wallace was the better Wallace.

@j.j.kucala9835 Жыл бұрын

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.

@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817 Жыл бұрын

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 ⚾!!!!

@lyriktehuti 2 ай бұрын

Did you look at how many hits he gave up per inning? How many so’s? His era? He was a solid pitcher but a great hitter.

@kennoetzli8645 5 ай бұрын

Great video 👏

@junkwaxmuseum8878 9 ай бұрын

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.

@littleblackduck3134 6 ай бұрын

That's one story , I also read Ruth made a pass at Gehrig's wife

@frogger1952 5 ай бұрын

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".

@aaronkoffsky8040 Жыл бұрын

Epic

@bucketballer3593 2 жыл бұрын

Great video

@nathangomez915 2 ай бұрын

W so sad Lou died early keep up the good work

@jerryking45 7 ай бұрын

Did he play the piano?

@nrkgalt 7 ай бұрын

Gehrig was born with the name Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig. His parents changed it to Henry Louis Gehrig during WWI.

@frogger1952 5 ай бұрын

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.

@calva221 Жыл бұрын

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.

@CaribouDataScience 7 ай бұрын

Actually Cal's streak ended when I went on strike...

@gregoryphillips3969 9 ай бұрын

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.

@littleblackduck3134 8 ай бұрын

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'

@gregoryphillips3969 8 ай бұрын

@littleblackduck3134 From all reports Gherig was a decent kind gentle person. He was quiet but friendly.

@littleblackduck3134 6 ай бұрын

@gregoryphillips3969 again one story I read, was Ruth made a (drunken) pass at Eleanor. Something like that would piss off Gandhl

@DustyB 8 ай бұрын

This is amazing

@jorgejohnson451 Жыл бұрын

4:33 Funny.

@ROIDEDCAPS7868 6 ай бұрын

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.

@johnresendez5847 Ай бұрын

The Great Bambino and The Iron Horse, nothing else to say

@littleblackduck3134 6 ай бұрын

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

@tommyfu9271 6 ай бұрын

Fun fact The bat Ruth uses as a cane in that famous pitcher belonged to Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller.

@BobRiedel 5 күн бұрын

Not taking anything away from the great Hank Aaron, but Hank needed 4,000 more at bats to hit just 40 more homers than Ruth.

@chiefslinginbeef3641 2 ай бұрын

Idk if someone said that about my wife that's basically accusing someone of child abuse now.

@garymaccagnone3669 Жыл бұрын

Are we sure about this? Seven years? You are just messing around.

@TheBatugan77 Жыл бұрын

1932 to 1939.

@nastynate1219 10 ай бұрын

No such thing as karma, Ruth drunk & treated his body terribly. Gehrig did everything right gets ALS...

@michaelhudson863 9 ай бұрын

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

@robertmasina7388 6 ай бұрын

The fairness or unfairness of life.

@frogger1952 5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@michaelhudson863 5 ай бұрын

@@frogger1952 wow- missed an entire season and still managed 25 home runs that year

@frogger1952 5 ай бұрын

@@michaelhudson863 Corrected. Missed 1/2 season.

@robertmasina7388 8 ай бұрын

It seems like these two were good guy/bad guy.

@Peter-f1z 4 ай бұрын

Dude, you’re not funny. Just tell the story.

@jacknicholson8246 7 ай бұрын

babe ruth goat

@ldfreitas9437 5 ай бұрын

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.