Super Clear video of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig taking batting practice in 1931

[Hornius Emeritus 12462]

Pretty great.

 

 

[Post Oak 20213]

That's so awesome.  I love baseball history

 

Thanks HE

[StruggleBus 3922]

Babe's mechanics are all kinds of ridiculous

[Helobious 9454]

42 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

Babe's mechanics are all kinds of ridiculous

“Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless”. -Kenny Powers. Also I think he was just trying to poke the ball to left and not crush a bomb.

[Bateshorn 9927]

1 hour ago, Helobious said:

“Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless”. -Kenny Powers. Also I think he was just trying to poke the ball to left and not crush a bomb.

His hands were so quick.  He just waits forever on the ball.

[Fozzz 152]

7 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Pretty great.

 

 

Fat fuck wouldn't hit .200 in today's game.

[Dewey 3286]

Must have hurt like he'll to swing a bat in those days. No gloves, bat's not at today's standards,  ball was probably hard as a rock, catch one wrong.... you can see Ruth shaking his left hand at the end.

[phdhorn 6224]

Wow Lou, sucked for those 5 pitches.  Based on that, he was way overrated and should have been a minor asterisk in baseball history.
 

[Firemans4Horn 18050]

Pitcher couldn’t put it down the pipe. 

[henrygandorf 29191]

gehrig was built like a brick shithouse. 

[Victorious1 140]

Real men don't wear helmets, lol

[Steamboat1874 4063]

BP pitcher seems like he sucks.

[Bartles 769]

^ That's what I was thinking. They barely got anything to hit in that whole clip.

Also love the recklessness of not having a cage and of course no fan netting. Older coach was hitting fungos like 5 feet away from the plate, other guys standing around where a foul ball could kill them. When men were men

[miguelito 11266]

You don't see a lot of BP pitchers throwing chin music.

[gsoda3 3262]

Did they have sock nets back then? Was the pitcher throwing off the mound for bp?

[runthebone 7982]

That video quality is amazingly good.  Their messing around bp swings don't look like a combined 296 WAR.

 

[Biff Tannen 45687]

On 7/15/2020 at 1:10 PM, StruggleBus said:

Babe's mechanics are all kinds of ridiculous

Little girl legs.

[Beau Vine 54230]

On 7/15/2020 at 9:29 PM, Dewey said:

Must have hurt like he'll to swing a bat in those days. No gloves, bat's not at today's standards,  ball was probably hard as a rock, catch one wrong.... you can see Ruth shaking his left hand at the end.

Ball was probably like a bean bag.

[Underdog 28640]

Would be an absolute fun era to back in time to watch.  
 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2732]

Very cool. So much weight on the front leg.

[BERT 4358]

I'm sorry, is that the Babe or The Whammer? 

[VirginiaLonghorn 4771]

On 7/15/2020 at 10:40 PM, phdhorn said:

Wow Lou, sucked for those 5 pitches.  Based on that, he was way overrated and should have been a minor asterisk in baseball history.
 

One can only imagine how much Wally Pipp sucked ...

[TornACL 7698]

On 7/15/2020 at 9:40 PM, phdhorn said:

Wow Lou, sucked for those 5 pitches.  Based on that, he was way overrated and should have been a minor asterisk in baseball history.
 

He wasn't the luckiest man on the face of the earth that day, that's for sure

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Never understood how Babe could hit with that horrible back hitch in his swing.  He must have had eyes like a fucking hawk.

[ztejas 43450]

11 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Never understood how Babe could hit with that horrible back hitch in his swing.  He must have had eyes like a fucking hawk.

Also guys weren't throwing it 95.

That said, something that is so awesome about baseball is how little it's changed in almost 200 years. You can take Gehrig's swing and put it in any era and bat .250.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 hours ago, ztejas said:

Also guys weren't throwing it 95.

That said, something that is so awesome about baseball is how little it's changed in almost 200 years. You can take Gehrig's swing and put it in any era and bat .250.

Yeah, but Babes swing was pretty much the same 85 or 95 high baller.  In that clip it seems the Babe swung at, and connected with more pitches than Gerhig.

Edited July 21, 2020 by Onboard 2.0

[Sbbruin 21853]

On 7/15/2020 at 11:10 AM, StruggleBus said:

Babe's mechanics are all kinds of ridiculous

First thing I was thinking.

[Huckleberry 32861]

Ruth had absurdly quick hands and reaction time. His mechanics were terrible judging by today's standards, but most folks run the wrong way with that argument.

If Babe Ruth played today his talent would have been noticed quickly and he would have been trained how to swing "correctly" against modern pitching. The question of Babe Ruth playing today with the same training methods and technique he used in the 1920s is stupid. If he played today he wouldn't use the same training methods and technique.

[Armybrat 40847]

On 7/16/2020 at 11:21 AM, Bartles said:

^ That's what I was thinking. They barely got anything to hit in that whole clip.

Also love the recklessness of not having a cage and of course no fan netting. Older coach was hitting fungos like 5 feet away from the plate, other guys standing around where a foul ball could kill them. When men were men

And the spectators wore coats & ties not only to games, but to bp.

[BERT 4358]

2 hours ago, Armybrat said:

And the spectators wore coats & ties not only to games, but to bp.

Feels like yesterday for ya, huh? 

[jkates 316]

3 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Ruth had absurdly quick hands and reaction time. His mechanics were terrible judging by today's standards, but most folks run the wrong way with that argument.

If Babe Ruth played today his talent would have been noticed quickly and he would have been trained how to swing "correctly" against modern pitching. The question of Babe Ruth playing today with the same training methods and technique he used in the 1920s is stupid. If he played today he wouldn't use the same training methods and technique.

Nor would he use his 40 oz bat .

[deadshank 24653]

On 7/15/2020 at 1:10 PM, StruggleBus said:

Babe's mechanics are all kinds of ridiculous

My mechanics are always off a bit when make it to BP at the yard and after an all-nighter with lotsa booze, cigars, steaks and scantily clad flappers.  

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What is the back story on this footage, was it recently uncovered and/or restored using modern techniques, or has it been around for a while and just happened to resurface on Twitter?