1920 Babe Ruth Highlights

Reel #: 1241

Babe Ruth hits a home run; pitching practice; young Ruth; batting practice; he and his wife; he joins the Yankees; boys wearing fezzes and holding crutches; he's given an honor, signs autographs, and cranks an organ; exterior of the new Yankee Stadium; home run at the Stadium; he with newsreel cameras; more shots of him at play

Setting: Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, Baltimore, Maryland, Yankee Stadium

People: red sox pitcher, Boston Red Sox 1910s, New York Yankees 1920s

Objects: homerun, Yankee Stadium Opening Hit, baseball bat, baseball,

Subjects: Bambino, 1910s baseball, 1927 Babe Ruth, 1920s Baseball

[vivalasvegas]

25 hot dogs & 20 soda pops in one serving and never turned Down a kids autograph. Legends never die

[jamesauber]

Babe ruth the best baseball player ever in baseball history he's the baseball goat greatest of all time

[yoshikigrg]

Can't believe this video is more than 100 years ago. 😮

[shinyscales]

At what point in human history did we figure out how to run normal

[KKBundy]

1:14 as a kid how cool would it be to have shook the babe's hand

[nibiruplanetx]

Awesome footage of the most awesome of the awesome!Babe!

[CapAnson]

1920 was an interesting year for Ruth. He actually started off horribly. In his first 18 games he hit .210 with just 2 home runs. The final 124 games he played he hit a staggering .401 with 52 home runs in just 396 at bats. That's insane. His slugging average was .922 and onbase .560 during that stretch.

[oeao]

I don't think iver ever seen any footage of him playing defense/running down a baseball

[ianreed]

The Babe is the only pitcher in MLB history to lead his league in homeruns(11 in 1918)! What a legend!

[chulochops]

The “My Footage” logo covering 1/4 of the video was a nice touch

[spcooper]

2:24 the legendary Walter Johnson in game footage!

[jacksonpost]

When vids from 100 years ago are better then modern day android 😂 💀

[rollbocke]

Many videos of Babe Ruth are a hodgepodge of clips, often chronologically inaccurate for the year stated or implied in a given presentation. Player uniform numbers didn't come into use until 1929, when Ruth was 34 yrs old and three quarters of the way through his playing career. There's been much more video of Ruth on the net in the past handful of years than over more than a half century on TV. Obviously, various sources had collectively quite a bit of film on Ruth, especially after he came to NY, media capital that it's been, but it apparently wasn't available, or readily available even to news outlets prior to the net and uploading sites like Youknowwhotube.

[paulfrombrooklyn]

Go into settings and set the speed to .5. The video will look like regular speed.

[somedayzo]

Playback speed at .75X and it will look much more natural. Sound will be off a bit though.

[supdawg]

And his stance was so unique i dont see anyone today who could stand like that and be successful

[bruhe]

Anyone know of speed-corrected vids from this era?

[allnite]

Is that “Shoeless” Joe Jackson at 1:04?

[vivalasvegas]

I didn't know he was that fast🤣🤣🤣🤪

[niceguy]

Some of baseball fields back then didn't even have a wall or seats in left field alot his hits in left field were doubles in triples in which if a fence or wall was there they would of been homeruns so he would of more than just 714