Did Babe Ruth's legendary 1919 Tampa home run really go 587 feet?

[@Mindswamp]

Considering that this happened during the dead-ball era anyone hitting it over 500 feet is awesome.

[@coryburns9161]

Great point and doing it with a 50 ounce bat.

[@baltimorefan5642]

No way my guy hit it 587 feet lol

[@cjr1881]

He didn’t

[@Whatupitskevin]

@@baltimorefan5642 yeah no way it was able to get anywhere near 587 feet lmao. I am sure it was a massive hit but 587? yeah not happening

[@xtcchewy2483]

@@Whatupitskevin 540 feet

[@perrytucker3299]

No steroids, the Babe ran on beer, hot dogs and the sweet memory of the 3 young beauty's who crawled out of his bed that morning.

[@dylancoolbaugh4166]

Also faced meatballs

[@dicksteptoe9199]

Babe ruth < Roger Marris. Babe Ruth would have been a great player if his entire career hadn't been marred by steroid use and accusations of performance enhancing drugs. Babe Ruth was a junkie plain and simple. A McGwire, Sosa or Bonds, Babe will never be, legacy wise

[@dicksteptoe9199]

@G hrvyck its common knowledge. Babe Ruth was a nandrolone freak and was also a regular user of corked bats. One of the biggest cheaters ever to have played the game. Next time...do your homework, Son.

[@gmasterdaone]

@@dicksteptoe9199 Wow. You are truly stupid! 😆

[@chaukateecrookswamp9195]

yoyoma can you hit a ball over 550 feet. And he did not use steroids or a corked, look it up. So next time do your homework son.

[@TheGoatBigZ]

Imagine going to get a hotdog and missing this

[@FleaOnMyWiener]

Will do.

[@chroniclionz5465]

bro i was at a memphis redbird’s game and i went to go get a chicken sandwich and we hit a homer and i missed it, i go back and sit down and about 3 or 4 innings later my girlfriend asks me to walk around the stadium with her. we’re passing the place where i got the chicken sandwich from and the redbird’s hit ANOTHER home run. i was disappointed and felt targeted.

[@chadmcdowell7999]

"Mutha...

[@deenobrown1]

I missed my son’s first home run for a Starbucks run. I never missed a single game or even a single at bat before that. We were in between games and I thought I had time for a coffee. I came back to the fields and the game was already underway. My son was lead off hitter and hit a home run about the time I was pulling in to the complex! 😩

[@nahyoungmont8897]

@@deenobrown1 do you mean your son is in the mlb? Or like his first home run ever?

[@TheBatugan77]

"Only 552 feet!"

[@electrinatormusic7728]

MANCHESTER UNITED soccer is for retards

[@electrinatormusic7728]

@gary robinson soccer is for retards who can't play real men sports like Football baseball and basketball

[@tubage07]

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C Soccer blows donkeys.

[@TheBatugan77]

@MAN UTD Soccer SucksSaltySeagullShit

[@FirstLast-se7gj]

@M so you're saying you can hit a ball with a bat?

[@Cincinnatus1869]

The amazing thing about Ruth is the fact that he was the best LHP in the American League and then a couple years later he was the most dangerous hitter the game had ever seen. No other baseball player has came close to doing that

[@0jjjjaaaayyyy0]

Shohei Ohtani is as close as we could get to the Babe, and he isn’t the best, he’s decent to good

[@Cincinnatus1869]

@@0jjjjaaaayyyy0 he is a rare talent for sure. I like watching that guy play

[@astrobullivant5908]

Well, rule changes were the major cause of that. One reason why Ruth probably stopped pitching full time was because the new rules making pitching more difficult were really unfavorable to Ruth...as a pitcher. These very same rules were incredibly favorable to Ruth as a slugger. To put it in perspective, in 1917, before the rule-changes were made, Babe Ruth had 123 at-bats and only hit two homeruns!

[@chickengenius4202]

Ohtani is working on it

[@owyatt3727]

shohei ohtani

[@cadenconverse15]

When people are talking about you over 100 years later you know you are forever a legend. Just amazing

[@wisemang73]

The computer analysis of Babe's swing is worth a watch. He generated a ton of rotational speed with his hips that only a few athletes have ever been able to do, Rory McIlroy being another

[@jockellis]

He hit one out of Atlanta’s Ponce deLeon Park that went all the way to Birmingham, Al courtesy of a passing freight train on the track between the Sears building and the Ford factory. The ball was found there in an open boxcar and traced back to the game in Atlanta.

[@terrancegore1fan461]

Now that’s the farthest home run ever

[@Joc_GoLive]

😂 facts I dnt believe no babe Ruth stories

[@tonypanzarella9387]

It's a good thing the Denny's wasn't already on Ponce, or the grease from the grill would have caused it to slide all the way to Memorial Drive in Decatur.

[@matthew5602]

I love how they bring in old people to act like they were there when it happened but it was over 100 years ago

[@evancross]

older people can get more accurate accounts from people who were there/ heard when it happened

[@iamjp1]

@@evancross almost less accurate lol. ever played the telephone game?

[@connor-xt1qs]

@@iamjp1 why would it be less accurate. Wouldn’t it be the same as “accurate”. And if this old lady was told by her 70 year old grandpa that saw this game when she was 20. And then told this news station. How would it be like the telephone game if it was passed down from one person

[@iamjp1]

@@connor-xt1qs an eye witness account would almost certainly become less accurate the longer time passes from the event, and that's when referring to something witnessed first hand. second and third hand accounts thus would be even less accurate.

[@iamjp1]

@@connor-xt1qs and you also just asked how it would be like the telephone game by saying it was like the telephone game lol person a tells person b who tells person c and person c tells us. that's the telephone game in a nutshell my friend.

[@MrShanester117]

In a double header, Babe once hit a foul ball so high that they caught it in the next game for an out

[@Dr_GraysGhost_420]

😂😂

[@vin.himself]

"His blasts were so big they became symbolic of America itself." wow I feel sooooo sorry for his girlfriend/wife

[@rieldebonk1044]

It all started with a big bang

[@paulknowles1763]

And one game in the 1927 season he hit such a high homerun ball --- it finally came down two innings later.

[@rygi23]

The well educated physics professor says the furthest a HR can possibly travel is just under 500 ft. He needs to be re-educated.

[@jaycompany4886]

Those are the same guys, that said, the curve ball is a myth, the ball doesn't spin, i wish those same guys, would face nolan Ryan.

[@MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

He probably went to those 'pass or fail' no test schools, like Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama.

[@l.rongardner2150]

These are the same scientists who push the manmade Climate Change hoax.

[@wendyjohansen6174]

@@MajorWolfgangHochstetter Right. Columbia and Harvard for Obama. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Where did you get your moronic education?

[@davidpadilla9468]

Newton says he can do it force equal mass times acceleration

[@df5295]

Mantle hit a ball in Washington that left the park and supposedly went 565ft. He also hit a ball that bounced off the facade at old Yankee Stadium. If it didn't hit the facade it would of left the stadium. It was supposedly still raising when it hit the facade. Mantle said it was the hardest ball he ever hit. So, yes a ball player can hit a ball over 500ft.

[@notsauer]

They certainly can. What bothers me is that these guys back when proper nutrition and weightlifting wasn’t a thing, and the average fastball velo was under 90 mph, hold all these distance records over the roided out 90s and 2000s guys. Andres Gallaraga hit probably the furthest ball I’ve ever seen at Dolphin Stadium (or whatever their sponsor was at the time), and initial reports said 579 feet, then got dropped to 529, but ESPN officially has it at 468 feet, which is completely asinine. Mathematicians verified it going atleast 520 feet making it one of the few pre-statcast homeruns to be proven to exceed 500 feet, but there’s no way the Babe surpassed him by another 60 feet

[@russellwilliams4317]

@@notsauer The babe is king, STILL! They did throw slower in his time, but for him to hit as far as he did with such 'slow' speeds shows his power and unmatched skill.

[@Jacobthekid28]

@@russellwilliams4317 Thats also assuming of course that he actually did hit a 587 ft homerun.

[@gseric4721]

I was thinking that if the ball didn't make contact with the stadium/rafters, we'd have seen a few go this distance.

[@MrK623]

The Mantle blast was not measured correctly. They went back the next day, and had to take someone's word, at the point the ball stopped rolling. Not accurate.

[@jeffersondavis2530]

I'm 75 years old and my Grandfather praised the Babe .Gramps was born in 1900 and yes knew baseball.

[@louisburch1930]

it kills me that Barry Bonds was included in this story.. I will never discount his pre-steroid talent... A sure hall of famer- But the bulk that came from nowhere was so obvious an enormous boost to his already great hand eye coordination - hence crazy long hits- Ruth was a God ... the closest thing we will ever have in ANY sport to a mythical figure !!! When I read Bonds called him a overweight out of shape nobody I realized that the baseball of Ruth's era was how the game should be now.. no flipping bats, or stupid stares, mullet haircuts , ridiculous gold necklace's or insane amounts of tattoos!! .etc..etc..etc.. - Just a simple tip of the hat as the Babe rounded third while listening to the jeering from the opposing teams dugout ( cant mention the words he heard ) after a 500 plus ft homer... There will NEVER be another Babe... The expression "Ruthian" says it all..

[@AceManifold]

Mickey Mantle hit one said to be between 510-565 feet on April 17, 1953.

[@lukegadansky6072]

Ok good job Babe but my Wii player legit averages over 600 ft. home runs

[@TheBatugan77]

Go play with your wi wi.

[@randyhuke3773]

The physicist is not taking into account Ruth's strength and shoulder weight and the fact he probably actually hit the sweet spot of the bat and ball perfectly to maximize distance. No mathematical equation can predict that !

[@raffysg1990]

Hold up anybody not talking bout how smooth that edit was when he was show how far the ball went

[@mikedunham8481]

The greatest ever, hands down.

[@epm5433]

@@aishanichols895 Talk to us when you can find Willie's pitching stats. Ruth remains the ONLY player to dominate on the mound and at the plate. Deal with it.

[@epm5433]

@Cam Bell He was a dominate pitcher when he was a full time pitcher. No one before or since has ever been dominate as pitcher and hitter. Ruth played in the climate and conditions as his contemporaries and he stood above them all. No baseball player since him has been as dominate. And none of you know-nothing, know-it-alls have any idea how the Babe would have faired in subsequent eras.

[@siler7]

@Cam Bell STOP with this garbage. Obviously he would have kept in better shape if he played now. He wasn't just good...his numbers absolutely towered over those of dozens of contemporary HoFers, and he still holds a lot of records to this day. His talent was IMMENSE, and he would put up video game numbers today like he did back then (if he managed his off-field issues).

[@marieakrim4862]

Greatest and most dominant player in baseball history !

[@marieakrim4862]

He out homered teams !

[@karnige5804]

i heard it landed 500 feet and rolled. the legend just kept growing

[@jamesbooker9411]

nah, man it was 1025 feet. I was there

[@numba1punta110]

1,027 ft

[@daymongray3516]

1337 feet and still rolling.

[@Albi117]

I can’t believe he started playing in 1914 it feels so old

[@RobertDavis-qh1ry]

I always admired (and always will) the Great Bambino. However, there are 2 home runs hit by Mickey Mantle that may very well have been even longer. The first one came the closest ever to a ball going out of the old Yankee Stadium - "The House That Ruth Built", as it came to be called. It hit the upper most part of the facade at the top of the stadium (never done before or after by anyone)in left field and landed back on the outfield grass rolling all the way to the dirt of the infield between first and second base. I heard and read many accounts of this Titanic blast. The other one exploded out of center field from the Detroit Tigers home stadium, hitting the corner of a large billboard advertisement on its way out and landed across the street on the roof of a house. Both of these blasts were measured and recorded as the longest home runs ever...the exact distances of which, are so astonishing, I will just suggest you Google them yourself...I hesitate to mention them as I would appear to many of you as a fool. As a side note, the one from Yankee Stadium took place in an at bat where the mild mannered Mantle became infuriated with the pitcher, who was taunting and mocking him during his at bat. As the saying goes, "Don't tug on Superman's cape"! I close by confessing "the Mick" was my boyhood hero. ❤

[@johnvan6803]

I agree. And actually, Mickey almost hit two balls out of Yankee Stadium. The first one was off Chuck Stabb in 1956. And don't forget Griffith Stadium in 1953. Mickey was something else!

[@johnvan6803]

Mickey was actually being taunted by the manager of the opposing team who yelled "you're washed up Mickey, you're a has been!" And when Mantle hit his blast of Bill Fisher the manager was really angry at him when he came back to the dugout!

[@roncaruso931]

The HR that hit the top of the facade was in right field. Not left field. Richie Allen hit a few balls over the 80 foot grand stands in the old Connie Mack stadium in the mid 1960's. One was measured at 525 feet.

[@RobertDavis-qh1ry]

@@roncaruso931 I stand corrected...it absolutely was the right field facade. I read about it many times, some even showed the right field facade. I mistakenly said left. Thanks for correcting me.

[@roncaruso931]

@@RobertDavis-qh1ry No problem

[@taro261]

so we're just going to ignore the fact the lady said "clout" at 2:13 ?

[@vortex-7225]

MANCHESTER UNITED shut up you’ve said that on Like every comment it makes no sense

[@vortex-7225]

Also I hate soccer so not every country. Stop

[@michaelshields6326]

Yes clout is a real word that people have been using for a long time.

[@MrMagicBannana]

@MANCHESTER UNITED Man soccer is so boring

[@Jacobthekid28]

So were just going to ignore the fact that the word clout has been around longer than you think?

[@juliandancingshadow4959]

Back in the 70's when I was in little league. A place in Fremont California called, "Tri-City Sporting Goods. I met a Bat carpenter for Rawlings. He told me back in the early 20th century till the late 30's they had 50-54 oz bats, and he makes them. I purchased a 51 oz bat from him and used it in a practice. It was 34" bat and for me as 12 year old it was extremely heavy. I choked up on that bat about 6" just so I can get a good swing; which wasn't that good so I had to deliver on my timing right. I hit the ball, not with a strong swing. When that ball rickashayed off that bat it went way farther than any ball I ever hit, at least by 70 to 100 feet farther.

[@yankiiz_1189]

Julian Dancingshadow dang

[@andrewbush4243]

Who is rick ashay?

[@fries5849]

It’s actually more impressive to see a 500 foot home run from the 20s to 30s era then now since pitchers throw harder so it would have been harder for someone to square up and then hit a ball 500 feet

[@jamesyoung5378]

if the pitch is going faster doesn’t the ball bounce off the bat better though?

[@paulknowles1763]

And now all the ballparks are smaller in terms of distance to hit a home run.

[@HMASJervisBay]

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

[@paulknowles1763]

Yep, Ruth was larger than his legend in his stats.

[@larrymead151]

I'm amazed theres a bridge or building standing since according to people today nobody knew how to measure before about 50 years ago.

[@N0tCreat1ve34]

I’m pretty sure in reality he hit the ball about 500ft or close to it, and it rolled the rest of the way.

[@gfblack5307]

You're probably right Braylon, but he did it without steroids and it is now baseball legend.

[@N0tCreat1ve34]

@@gfblack5307 that would probably even be impressive with steroids tbh

[@albundy8192]

@@N0tCreat1ve34 sponge ball also,, not a golf ball

[@daymongray3516]

Agreed.

[@poocrayon4588]

Very likely but that's still incredible

[@nicksacco5041]

Needless to say that we likely can’t trust how they recorded home run distances back then

[@AP-lt8fx]

Needless to say in 1921 he cleared the 500 center field wall in Detroit. It not only cleared the wall,it cleared the ballpark.

[@TheBatugan77]

Who's we, nicky? You french? Babe hit several 500 foot bombs.

[@newerafrican]

You could compare him to his peers, however. And he had none, at least in the early 1920's. He hit more home runs than almost every other ENTIRE TEAM. Just enjoy the legend. Babe Ruth was good for baseball and still is.

[@xinyster18]

@@TheBatugan77 a commie, probably.

[@philgamer_309]

Imagine being a time traveller and just being there to see the game

[@spacelemur7955]

A 17 mph tail-wind on a towering drive off of that heavy bat would indeed be a sight to behold, no matter what the true distance.

[@morefiction3264]

I'd love to see someone, using film footage, estimate Babe Ruth's bat speed. Figure in the weight of his bat. Use some estimates for the range of pitch speeds. Add the 17 mph wind. Plug it into an equation, the physics are well know. And get an estimate for how far that ball really could have gone.

[@sheriffvr2001]

Narrator: Some people say it’s ONLY 540 feet.

[@williamwells1862]

Mantle hit 550 ft in DC My Dad saw it.

[@josmit2213]

Never knew he used a 50 oz bat. That’s the more amazing to me than a 587 foot homer.

[@Doors067]

I got to hold one at a sports memorabilia show one time. Had to wear gloves am everything. Was like fred Flintstones caveman club...

[@Nikkithedog-t6b]

Man I thought the same, how do you get that thing around?

[@calinator51]

Did you ever think the size could be the reason?

[@samuelsuggs9751]

He used a 54 oz bat in his early 20s. By his late 30s he was down to around 38 oz bats. That would still be the heaviest bat in MLB today if someone used it. Chipper Jones used a 36 in 36 oz bat his whole career and other players said he hit with a tree trunk.

[@hyzercreek]

@@samuelsuggs9751 Ruth's 54 ounce bat was just for warm ups and spring training. It wasn't legal for play it was 3 inches diameter they only allow 2.61 inches.

[@avigdorbenhaim2551]

A 50 ounce bat😱

[@jamesmeyers887]

Dang that big

[@bodiemodlin2573]

James Meyers *heavy not big

[@supersami7748]

According to at least 2 biographers he preferred a lighter bat most of the time, a 46oz. I guess some people somewhere might consider that light!

[@dtnetlurker]

He used up to 54 oz bats. These lightweights that play now wouldn't last a week in The Babes day.

[@jaycompany4886]

@@dtnetlurker they couldn't hit a foul ball with a 54 ounce, that's 20 more ounces than the one most of today's players use, which is a 34 ounces

[@ballybunion9]

April 1976, Wrigley Field: Dave Kingman hit a home run that the NY Daily News reported the next day landed 630 feet from home plate.

[@gunnerwalker8092]

I could believe that Kingman was bad

[@Stormsfury777]

The distance recognized today is 530 ft. Irregardless, Kingman absolutely destroyed that baseball

[@donaldleider7382]

However far the ball was hit remember the baseball they used in 1919 wasn’t made for home runs. They were loosely wound used most of the game and were scuffed and beat up during the course of the game.

[@larrystone9474]

Having a 54 ounce bat as opposed to a 34 ounce bat would be a disadvantage. Anyone that knows the first thing about physics knows speed is more important than weight when it comes to power. Double the weight, double the power. Double the speed, quadruple the power.

[@AmericanPatriotsApparel7]

Babe Ruth was the MAN! He's far and away my favorite baseball player of all time!

[@Amzingred]

You never watched him.

[@AmericanPatriotsApparel7]

@@Amzingred I've played Baseball for 40 years. How long have you played? You ever even play the game? I don't need your permission to have a favorite Baseball player and I certainly don't need to watch someone in person to understand them as a person or their game since I have the experience I do. Keep your derogatory peanut gallery comments to yourself. By the way there is something called Video which is what we were watching of the man. So, clearly you are wrong because my eyes did watch him on video. AH DURRR! You are just quite obviously a miserable person always looking to start trouble with people you don't even know because you have no life. I'll be praying for you to get the help you need.

[@gcxred4kat9]

I was at the 3rd ever Tampa Bay Devil Rays game. Me and my wife were walking around the stadium checking it out and were way up in the upper deck at a spot they called The Beach. Frank Thomas was up, watched him swing and it hit the lights just above everybody. Years later I heard it was still the longest homer ever hit there.

[@Thecastofthelast]

How fitting to watch this on April 4th 2021

[@jeduckgaming9926]

Ok first of all, there is no way in hell babe Ruth hit a ball 587. Second of all, the scientist saying the max distance a home run can go without wind is just straight up wrong. In the past few years there have been multiple balls hit over 500 feet without wind.

[@davidpadilla9468]

No ruth hit a 600 footer home run . The laws of newton states he can. F equal mass time acceleration

[@wildone5295]

Heroes get remembered, but LEGENDS never die #3

[@budlite8413]

Well babe died so I guess he isn’t a legend

[@peytonlucy5947]

In 1919, the guy who finished second to Ruth in HRs hit 12. Eight home runs put you in the top ten. To fit a 500 foot home run with a ball that dead is amazing.

[@SilverSkitterscuttle]

ACtually the ball was NOT that dead. Later in a game it might lose bounce since they rarely replaced it if unnecessary: until Roy Chapman was killed by a "submarine" pitch he could not see in the combination of atmospheric & overused ball's darkness... But in 1911 they made the center of the ball cork. Nobody SWUNG for the fences until Ruth or hit many home runs until him, but offense jumped, including extra base hits, from then on. It took Babe & his seemingly Wild-Child, reckless, huge uppercut swing to show everyone how under-exploited a niche the Homer was! 🙂🙂 And the walk: since if you are that kind of a threat to drive in runs, they will pitch you carefully enough that you can more often get a free pass, that adds significantly to your value!

[@kennappier3608]

That was real baseball back then when the babe played. I wish it was like that now. Baseball has changed alot over the years.

[@evanjonez914]

Boring ass baseball back then

[@hotdogs5265]

And with a strong wind. Absolutely possible.

[@bkbj8282]

"I don't have a niche career writing about this if I don't confirm it"

[@Wyrmwould]

I chuckled when the guy said it was *only* 552 feet.

[@piercemccauley7079]

There is literally no way for anyone to know how far it went. Dude measured it with his paces...

[@akadoiphin267]

197 paces at 3 foot intervals, if anything his paces were too short

[@daymongray3516]

Also who’s to say it rolled the last 150 feet? Or some kids kicked it further.

[@johnoakes3106]

Babe Ruth is the real, "Mr. Baseball." He loved the game. He loved the fans. He saved the game after the "Black Sox Scandal." He even changed the way the game was played. What player beside the Babe can say that?

[@rmarantis2962]

Agreed. Now that Aaron is gone, they are talking about retiring #44 league wide. What about Babes #3?

[@coryburns9161]

@Nimfa McDonald that's funny and not funny I know what you mean.

[@AJ-bc5df]

Wilt Chamberlin in basketball......

[@jamesd2128]

50 ounce bats would not do so well against the crazy velocity of todays throwers, but I still respect the Bambino's legend. Damn, it would've been something to see him play.

[@johnoakes3106]

I'm an old man who has seen many greats play. Ted Williams comes to mind. However, I do regret never seeing Babe Ruth play. Several men I've talked to who saw him play all said the same thing; When he came to bat you could feel his presence no matter where you were sitting in the stadium!

[@coryburns9161]

@Nimfa McDonald what do you think about a 50 ounce bat.

[@coryburns9161]

@Nimfa McDonald hey I didn't know that since they were shorter probably a lot lighter.

[@coryburns9161]

@Nimfa McDonald probably nobody has ever done that a big strong guy to go from such a huge bat to make that adjustment. I'm certain he could have played different era.

[@coryburns9161]

@Nimfa McDonald he is easily the Goat of baseball he could do it all and make adjustments if necessary I have so much respect for him. And he overcame his parents who gave him up to a orphanage because to me he is might have been a little rambunctious not a criminal.

[@garygood6804]

Ruth swung that massive bat quick quick. That weight and speed, I believe that hr went far far.

[@chongook4893]

2:15 dababy

[@rokeyakadir5625]

LES GOOOO

[@depressedmidlifecrisistimm3043]

LESS GO

[@Yin2K]

@Nightstalker_55_420 no he made a da baby reference

[@bobbyking1738]

@@Yin2K yeah

[@peterssynthetics-independe6786]

Straight up. I am a huge Ruth fanboy. However, my dad was in Atlanta in the Early 70’s, had a chance to see Hank Aaron hit batting practice. There were several players and coaches milling around, few people in the stands. Dad said that Hank hit one so hard that as it went over second base, 10 ft or so above it, that it began to rise, and it was still rising when it hit the top of the upper deck roof rafters in Fulton County stadium. Everyone in the ball park was stunned and someone in the crowd remarked ‘If that was on film, it would have been the longest ball hit, ever’ I still think Babe was the greatest.

[@MarkJohnson-xs1ql]

Hank Aaron my favorite baseball player of all time 715 my favorite number.

[@willvidzz5569]

He had 94 wins as a pitcher in the MLB with a 2.28 career ERA. So every time someone gets to 715 HRs, make sure you toss them the ball and say “Okay, now go win 95 games as a pitcher.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@99somerville]

He was a great pitcher as you mentioned. Probably would have gone into the HOF had he continued pitching.

[@Jacobthekid28]

@@reneg3126 Well considering the fact that they would have to face a much scarier lineup than the Babe ever had to, I would assume that they wouldn't do very good.

[@markdubois4882]

The ONLY pitcher to win the HR Crown!

[@TheBatugan77]

@@Jacobthekid28 Oh bullshittt.

[@jimbojimbob9197]

Once pitched 14 straight innings.

[@8avexp]

Joey Meyer, playing for the Denver Zephyrs of the American Association in 1987, hit a home run at Denver's old Mile High Stadium that went into the second deck and was measured at 582 feet.

[@Barabbas7798]

Greatest ball player of all time

[@bigjuice7020]

It's very rare to hit a baseball that far but if anyone was going to do it was the babe!💪⚾

[@jayus2033]

Babe is the worst, The blue jays are better

[@1JamesMayToGoPlease]

He was the absolute king of baseball and will never be forgotten.

[@johannwilder1437]

Ruth probably wasn’t the most powerful hitter but he was the best of all time. When you consider he had the 2nd highest homerun frequency in history (only behind McGwire), that he had career .342 average, highest career slugging % all time (for non steroid user), all-time record for total bases in one season (457), 170 runs and 170 RBI in a single season, highest OPS all time (for non steroid user)…you cannot say this for ANYONE else.

[@craigwheeler4760]

I can say it of Ted Williams. Had he not served like 5 years in the US Armed forces, he would've been the one to break all of Babe Ruth's records, instead of Hank Aaron.

[@JD-bd2up]

If You hit a baseball numerous times over 500 feet and in multiple games you are thousands of years ahead of your time. George Herman Ruth 👑

[@Elliott_peavey]

This was 1 year ago and it got on my recommended on my iPad on April 4 still

[@johnfoster535]

John McGraw witnessed the measuring and commented that it was just short of two football fields !! There is NO doubt.....Babe Ruth WAS baseball itself........he WAS the greatest to ever play the game......and he loved the game more than anything in the world. The day that the Babe is forgotten, will be the day that baseball is forgotten.

[@freeguy77]

Babe was the best power hitter. But he wasn't the best pure hitter for average, plus stealing. That goes to Ty Cobb, with a .366 average and almost 900 stolen bases. Although the number has been beaten by Lou Brock and Ricky Henderson, Cobb did it when stealing was the thing to do, and the pitchers-catchers could not stop him from his terror when merely getting a single! Psychologically, getting a home run is just one swing and it is over, but getting a single, then advancing to second or frequently to third, and sometimes then stealing home is embarrassing to the defense, and upsets the pitcher with Cobb's threat to steal and upsets the entire infield. Casey Stengel, who played (before becoming a manager) and frequently saw Cobb play, said he was unreal. No doubt Ruth and Cobb are the two best players in baseball history. Ruth with his natural ability for power hitting, plus a great pitcher before changing to hitting only, and Cobb who out-thought, out-worked, and terrorized the opposition.

[@coryburns9161]

@@freeguy77 Babe Ruth said that he could hit singles all day but that obviously is not what he wanted to do.

[@freeguy77]

@@coryburns9161 What he really said was, "I could have hit .600 if I wanted to. But the people were payin' to see me hit them homers!" That is closer to what he said.

[@coryburns9161]

@@freeguy77 you are right you are close enough.

[@wendyjohansen6174]

@@freeguy77 He also went into the stands and beat a heckler to death

[@genepsullivan]

Was Ernie Nevers the pitcher?

[@Mrpackermittinsm]

Still the greatest of all times.

[@joeblow7407]

Andreas Gallaroga hit one in Miami on a hot humid day......It landed in the upper deck and would have exceeded 500 feet.....Just unreal!

[@tommyriam8320]

'..hit _won_ ..' ? lol *''one''*

[@donwhiteley3293]

I still think that's the longest HR hit in my lifetime (since 1979). The original estimate was somewhere in the 575 ft range, but I think they've downgraded it to 529 ft now. I think the original might be closer to the truth. I've seen Sosa's HR out of Wrigley onto Kenmore (not Waveland) Avenue and McGwire off Randy Johnson in the Kingdome and neither of those really come close imo.

[@joeblow7407]

@@tommyriam8320 Thanks for tip. Correction made. I assume you are a Harvard grad who has zero athletic ability. Are you a big ballet fan?????

[@craigwheeler4760]

@@joeblow7407 The professor didn't know WTF he was speaking about. The Kingdom is where McGwire hit his 540 ft HR off Randy Johnson. That was using modern bat sizes and under controlled conditions. The Professor said 'just a little over 500ft with exit velocity of 120 MPH is the max". That's disproved by the actual measured distances of Jose Canceco and Mark McGwire's blasts at Kingdome, and indoor stadium with no wind, at sea level, and with no helpful conditions. I'd say that Babe hit it at least 550 ft before it landed, because he was hitting with a bat that weighted 1.5x the modern bats. The extra mass of his bat would drop the required exit velocity by quite a bit, to get those kind of distances.

[@austins9950]

“The farthest a ball can be hit is just under 500’ “ huh? Well: laughs in 2021 HR derby with 520’ bombs

[@maxxbenzz7842]

Really?

[@kennethgriffin7921]

when theres no stands to stop the ball and just road behind the fence a ball can bounce and roll an extra 50 feet or so.. I believe it

[@Kado_Tornado]

Anyway, it went about 500 ft, aided by the wind, and rolled, aided by the wind.

[@edwardbenton8323]

One thing you forgot, the air in Florida is dense because of the high humidity. Meaning this resistance greatly increases. Unlike a ball hit in the thin air in Denver.

[@bobo44donemilking51]

@@matt8863 you guys are both saying the same thing 🤔

[@ary.d9523]

Alright, I’m gonna go watch the Sandlot now...

[@thebambino4728]

BY THE WAY he also hit one at Briggs Stadium in Detroit that went 600 feet !!

[@kevinweakley2852]

Over Trumbull right up Cherry street !

[@Jacobthekid28]

Show me the proof !!

[@thebambino4728]

@@Jacobthekid28 IMPOSSIBLE to show you THE PROOF but there were EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS of it that were WELL DOCUMENTED !

[@Jacobthekid28]

@@thebambino4728 And who exactly were the eyewitnesses?

[@thebambino4728]

What the hell do you think I DO - MEMORIZE WORD FOR WORD everything I've ever read about it ?? People LIKE YOU are never going to BELIEVE THE TRUTH anyway so I'm not WASTING ANYMORE TIME ON YOU !

[@baseballgod8065]

Mark McGwire could not come close to 587 feet with steroids and Giancarlo Stanton can't top that with a juiced baseball. I'd be willing to bet Ruth could not hit one that far living on hot dogs and beer.

[@jwl1278]

Open air, with the wind, maybe.

[@mikedunham8481]

Ballparks put up far poles because of The Babe so they say.

[@pearldiver1006]

The Babe did live on beer and dogs and swung a bat reggie jackson couldn't swing.

[@onetimeforthebangbang6049]

Giancarlo can't do it cause that bitch can't hit lol

[@chaukateecrookswamp9195]

He did tho?

[@johntaylor3471]

Swinging a 52 ounce bat and those Henry Aaron quick wrist, I have to say yes !

[@ironmantravisfulton4058]

According to "science" a human is incapable of hitting a ball pitched 100 mph so...there's that Idk why everybody wants to discredit Babe Ruth. Jealous a fat, beer drinking and fun loving guy is the best baseball player of all time?

[@herbpetrillo163]

Actually, the haters hate him cause of his race..

[@THEDONSTR8Fightah76]

@@herbpetrillo163 haha probably.

[@jimberner9343]

I love how people question things they didn't see. The Babe was known for hitting bomb homeruns, he revolutionized the game. Back then they kept stats just like we do now, yes more primitively, but still recorded everything. Just look at the graph they had in this video where they had for the wind speeds by hour just on that day. Babe at a very young age was followed by reporters and scouts consistently there's nothing that was not witnessed, I have no doubt he hit at 587 foot homerun. He did amazing things that didn't even need to be proven, they are lore. When he promised the kid in the hospital he'd hit him a homerun, it was witnessed, and he went and did it. The called shot and other amazing feats. Just amazes me how with today's stars, we see what they can do and then so-called experts question the past and people like Ruth, why because today's athletes can't do what he did???

[@poocrayon4588]

Exactly, these things aren't some dark ages myth - a lot of people saw them at the time and recorded them, they weren't making up a lie to fool people living 100 years later. Why would anyone doubt the truth of it?

[@fougee1]

A 50 ounce bat and the guy swung it like a big pencil. He would hit a modern baseball into orbit.

[@J-D-O-Double-G]

Your first instinct is there's no way, especially back then, but when you start reading the size of the bat Babe used and the weight that he used when he was younger, well now imo there is a possibility he may have hit one that far.

[@iraevans2013]

He would love that he's still the greatest. Does anything else really matter? Thx for posting a cool vid.

[@daymongray3516]

I don’t think he’s the greatest.

[@1969MARKETING]

bottom line is he didn't hit the ball that far. they got it wrong. now the legend endures.

[@pickronk]

I'm surprised how far that was!

[@nashnonel6239]

Hate to break it to you old heads, but babe ruth wasn't as great as everyone thinks. He played against 50 year old mechanics, doctors, and carpenters. Baseball was their second job. I learned all this from my 98 year old neighbor who grew up around it.

[@firebird_spleen4190]

Its recorded he hit one well over 600 in an exhibition game. It was close to oilfields and it landed there.

[@AppsToTry1]

Im watching this 1 year later. April 4th, so happendly Easter.

[@wheelzwheela]

3:13 “he had a very, very modern sense of biomechanics he understood the principals of leverage and torque”. Oh brother, first off he probably didn’t secondly even if he did it’s more natural ability that him sitting down with graph paper and calculating trajectory before a game. Typical biographer statement.

[@Kitsune16-r4h]

You act like you personally knew babe Ruth 🤣🤣🤣

[@davidmoss2576]

He was 6'0" at best and hitting pitches that average 80-85 mph. If guys who's 6'7" hitting 95mph juiced balls can't do it I'm pretty sure it wasn't 587ft. Love the Babe but even as a kid I thought it was fishy story.

[@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817]

Babe Ruth was6'2" 260lbs. "The Babe" was a "Big-Fat" Man! A lot of POWER!!😮

[@TheAmateruAstronomer]

I don’t belive it he’s calling his shot

[@JammastaJ23]

No. Let me save you some time. No. Even with modern balls and the highest exit velocities getting to 500 ft at a sea level ballpark is like a once every five year occurrence. This was the dead ball era, the pitchers likely didn't throw as hard as modern pitchers, and someone "pacing" off the distance is the least reliable way imaginable to measure distance. It was probably a mammoth shot but you're out of your mind if you think 587 is anywhere near reasonable. This home run overestimation is an epidemic and needs to stop.

[@davidpadilla9468]

It was a 6 hundred foot shot

[@JammastaJ23]

@@davidpadilla9468 It circled the earth twice

[@TheBatugan77]

The science guy is wrong.

[@lawsonthrockmorton7882]

Yeah Evan gattis hit an 85 mph slider into the wind 486ft. Imagine no wind and an aroldis Chapman fastball. Well over 500 for sure.

[@TheMomanslm]

Science says, or more correctly stated scientists say, bumble bees and humming birds can't fly. It has been said they "defy science." In light of the witness accounts I'd say the Babe defied scientists with a scientific swing and scientifically provable conditions.

[@pearldiver1006]

That dent in the upper facade at yankee stadium was done by the Mick and the ball was going up when it it the wall. Possibly a 650' or more shot. He knocked one out of Griffith stadium

[@timhart3302]

How about Mickey Mantle hitting that spier on top of the 3RD deck at old Yankee stadium that none seems to want to talk about? Computers have calculated 650feet without the steady 30 mile an hour wind blowing in from right there toward home plate but when calculating that, over 800 feet by other computers.

[@SilverSkitterscuttle]

That is not plausible. Read Bill Jenkinson's "Baseball's Ultimate Power". He is credited with a little over 550' in projected distance. Still #2 ever...And the "still rising" thing is an optical illusion.

[@timhart3302]

@@SilverSkitterscuttle plausible? What did you do, learn a new word, sonny? What I said is correct. If you don't like it then you have problems.

[@SilverSkitterscuttle]

@@timhart3302 Dude YOU have problems. 🙄 1) You can contest nothing I wrote: repeating "I am correct" is a basic logical fallacy~> of presenting no evidence. 2) Pathologizing anyone because they politely DOUBT your case is called another logical fallacy: an "ad hominem" (personal) attack. Irrational & vicious. 3) Read the historian Bill Jenkinson's book about the home run. He has a lot of science behind it, & researched a ton of primary sources about every significant HR found until then. 4) I am hoping you are not....unwell enough to just invent facts. Please cite sources to back up anything, or refute what I say. A simple Google search shows a seemingly unanomous opinion that Mantle was AIDED by a significant wind. An AI summary... "The wind speed was 20 miles per hour when Mickey Mantle hit a home run that was aided by the wind. The ball would have only traveled 464 feet without the wind, and only 359 feet if the wind had been blowing in the opposite direction. 5) Check with ANY physicst or baseball expert-or ask me for sources such as "The Physics of Baseball": everyone will tell you that a 650' HR against a 30 MPH wind, let alone 800', is ludicrous; impossible. Have someone good at math run the numbers for you: the bat speed needed to produce such distances would be WAY beyond the biggest, even if drug/performance enhanced & best sluggers-ever. 6) "Sonny"? You sound like a cartoon of a parody of an old man. Not that there is anything wrong with being old; but you are acting like what people disdain & joke about for old folks. AND you have no idea how old I am...which is 59. 7) DO NOT even comment if you are going to be not only irrational, but insulting & juvenile from the security of Internet anonymity. Such conduct is part of what is WRONG with modern life~> did you used to have standards of civility & decency, or are you OK in real life, but take out your insecurities & bitterness online? 😞 8) Don't write me again UNLESS you are decent & non-abusive. Otherwise I will report your comment for abuse, then you can decide if you want to jeapordize or lose your position here due to anger management issues when you were treated with what you must relearn; civility. 😐

[@DATONEGAMER25]

I mean when you compare Barry bonds body build compared to babe Ruth... idk

[@jeffreylorenger6746]

Barry bonds hit 0ver 500 he’s after the age of 35!

[@marieakrim4862]

Bonds is a damn steroid cheater !

[@jeffreylorenger6746]

Barry bonds I remember seeing him at Pittsburgh with Bonilla and he was a skinny kid then I remember seeing him at San Francisco and he was huge with garvey forearms but on his arms.he looked like he had been pounding weights in off season. And all hisHR’s we’re going in the water and a couple were hit so hard I think there still going!

[@jeffreylorenger6746]

@@marieakrim4862 Do you remember Luis Gonzalez he hit I think 58 HR’s in 1998 in 1997 he hit 6 what?

[@gregb6469]

Bonds couldn't carry the Babe's jockstrap!

[@jackwillis6867]

I wish I could have seen the two home runs that Mickey Mantle in the roof or fadod in Yankees standard.

[@rayulrich3128]

I wish I could of seen him play

[@paulknowles1763]

My Dad told me about seeing Ruth in Nashville around 1928 or so - when he was on an exhibition game vs. the Nashville Vols. In batting practice - everyone was watching Ruth and they nearly ran out of baseballs as he was hitting everything out of the park. They had to go find the balls as they left the stadium. And, of course he hit a couple during the game --- a fun time to be alive and watch the Babe.

[@tommyriam8320]

'..could _have_ seen..'

[@JohnZBaeZ]

I use to use a 38 ounce 34 inch bat at the cages. When I was at my peak, I made the whole netting jump. One shot I made the netting jump and the ball shot thru a hole and fell onto the fire department practice field at Sherman Oaks Castle in Studio City. Broke the bat later from the barrel. It caved in and started smoking. If you have the upper strength and anger, it's there. It was an Aluminum bat

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Jackie Robinson breaking the colour bar was a great feat reverberating across all sports breaking down barriers for others a true inspiration.🎋

[@vincecozzi1112]

ok yea agreed but isn’t this about Babe Ruth?????

[@skip1860]

Way to bring up something NO ONE mentioned

[@josephine-j1p]

Hot humid air.....Ball carries!!!!!

[@josephine-j1p]

Gary Sanchez hit a homer in Detroit of 495 feet.........Longest ever in Comerica Park........Yankee catcher!!!!

[@gamingonwheels2502]

It's extremely unrealistic to think that the ball went 587 feet in the air for quite a few reasons. However, the person who saw where the ball "landed" pointed out where it came to rest, so it definitely rolled to that position or was placed there. No human would be able to hit it that far in the air, especially in the early 1900's.

[@AJ-bc5df]

The Babe wasn't a normal human......

[@paulknowles1763]

Buy the book by Bill Jenkinson ---"The Year Babe Ruth hit 104 Home Runs" --- he gives a lot of data on how far a ball can travel. And excellent book to learn a lot of about baseball - things I never knew before and some interesting stuff about equipment, stadiums, etc.

[@davidpadilla9468]

He was not human and he did. He hit it at 600 feet. Newton says he can f=ma

[@andrewbrummett4828]

Imagine great hitters like babe Ruth using modern day metal bats like 2017 cf zen