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00:06okay
00:07there ever was a time that i'm going to try to hit a home run it's sure going to be
00:10today
00:11for you boys how does a kid from emory street in baltimore manage to be the toast of broadway
00:20he played years and years and years ago but his name today is just as big as it was back
00:24then
00:25when he came out on the field it was like the star came onto the center stage i'll tell you
00:31right now a thousand years from now they're still talking about babe ruth
00:46ladies and gentlemen the bambino
00:52every time i mentioned baseball babe ruth
00:55he was the most real name george herman
01:02take bad practice nobody looked at anything else but babe swinging that bat
01:08i heard the crack of that bat and i'd never heard that sound before
01:11i wanted to see who was hitting with the prettiest swing i've ever seen
01:15and that was babe rupee and that ball it was a special excitement about the fact that it was him
01:21it wasn't just a home run it was a babe ruth home run
01:25fans would come out to see babe and if he struck out they were tickled to death if he hit
01:30a home run
01:31they were happy so here's a man whatever he did they were happy
01:35an entire nation loved him and its youngsters made him their personal idol
01:40what if he flied out or hit a single
01:44even probably a youngster when they first start to get interested in baseball
01:49one of the first names they will ever hear
01:52is a person that's been dead for 50 or 60
01:5670 years
01:57the magic name in baseball history is babe ruth
02:00it has to be babe ruth
02:03he had one of the sweetest swings in the game
02:06certainly one of the most powerful but in truth
02:09babe's real power was his power over the people
02:13for not only did children adore him
02:15the most famous of men were humbled in his presence
02:20i have a ball autograph by babe ruth wish i had taken a picture with him but
02:25those days
02:26babe ruth baseball's hero of heroes
02:30he was the hero babe ruth and came to yale university in 1948 and i was the captain of the
02:37yale ball club so it was a very special moment because as a little kid i'd gone to yankee
02:42stay and seen park many of them right out of the ballpark
02:44babe never disappointed he dominated the game like no one ever will dominate the game
02:50and then off the field
02:52i wouldn't say that
02:54for his time yeah sure
02:56but uh how's his how's his fielding
02:58nobody ever saw him call the ball
03:02him him catch a ball
03:04and throw someone out
03:06make a double play
03:11field he was even larger than he was on the field
03:18only one chief clown one chief hero one chief everything in the game
03:23george herman ruth
03:25he captured the imagination of baseball fans of non-baseball fans throughout the world
03:34in japan it was all babe ruth
03:37thousands of japanese fans followed ruth everywhere
03:42it was all babe ruth babe ruth babe ruth
03:45and lou gary was there too as usual
03:50and it's not too much to say that babe ruth always responded so warmly
03:57there's been so many lovely things said about me
04:03and i'm glad that i've had the opportunity to thank you
04:09in return baseball fans thanked the babe and acknowledged his accomplishments
04:15by making him a unanimous selection to the prestigious all-century team
04:23he began his career as one of the game's best pitchers ended up 714 home runs later as an american
04:34legend
04:34george herman
04:36i am more than gratified and pleased that people still think of him as being such a great
04:48baseball player there's hardly a day goes by that his name is not mentioned in some ways
04:55he's bigger now than he was when he was playing baseball
05:01i think babe ruth's the most famous athlete of the 20th century
05:05and certainly the most famous player of all time
05:10he's got to be two or he's got to be top three there's top three or four there's pelle ali
05:18jordan roof
05:21he's got to be one of those four
05:29his celebrity his star athletic ability has transcended and he has become an american icon
05:39the greatest public figure in the history of american sports
05:55coming up next on yankeeography under control
06:01as babe got
06:02babe ruth is like literally his dad
06:05with just without a mustache
06:07to the point where he could get out in the streets uh a little bit he was unattended
06:12not because his parents didn't love him but they were busy
06:15babe ruth as a kid was was the same personality as babe ruth when he was a grown man
06:21he was having a good time he was a good boy in a way but he didn't like to go
06:28to school
06:30and he didn't like to do a lot of things that was asked for him to do in an effort
06:35to both discipline
06:36and educate the babe his parents sent him to saint mary's industrial school for boys
06:42in hopes he would someday become a shirt maker
06:48in this institution saint mary's industrial school for boys in baltimore george herman ruth was brought up
06:54it can be fairly said that he was not considered a promising boy in the beginning he um i think
07:01he
07:01went back and forth he did have times when he went back home but then he always came back here
07:06after a while though and for the majority of his time he just stayed here we're standing on babe ruth
07:13field
07:13this is the field where he actually learned to play baseball um when the babe was here
07:19was one of those people and thought the babe would make quite a picture for his minor league team
07:24but there was a hitch in order to get out of saint mary's industrial school you had to be 21
07:29years old
07:31well at the time he was 18 19 years old when he was discovered by jack dunn so jack dunn
07:36had to
07:36actually literally become his guardian he had to sign paper saying uh yes i will be the guardian of babe
07:42ruth
07:42when he goes off the spring training the baltimore newspapers picked up on this legal guardian thing
07:46and start why do the grown men need need a legal guardian started calling uh george herman ruth
07:54jack dunn's baby and that's where the nickname came from i think before they ever left spring training
08:01he was babe ruth the 19 year old ruth pitched well for dunn but his playing time in baltimore would
08:08be
08:09short live jack dunn runs into financial difficulty that led to him selling off his top players to the
08:17red sox just so he could float payroll and that's how ruth goes off to the red sox ruth arrived
08:25in boston
08:25in 1914 as a highly touted pitching prospect the babe joined a red sox team that was on the verge
08:32of winning
08:33three of the next five world series and ruth quickly established himself as one of the game's best
08:41as a pitcher with the red sox he won more games before the age of 23 than any other pitcher
08:46in the
08:47hall of fame except bob feller in his first five full seasons he was a pitcher and in two of
08:51those years
08:51he was a 20 game winner yeah yeah nobody cares about his pitching days also he was on the red
08:59sox so
09:02let's skip to his days with the yankees because this is yankeography outfield
09:08the red sox made the decision that they needed to have him play every day he was just too valuable
09:15to
09:15the club it was in 1919 the red sox made ruth an everyday outfielder and he responded with a record
09:2229 home runs but that wasn't the year's big baseball story eight members of the chicago white sox were
09:31accused of consorting with gamblers to throw the 1919 world series commissioner kennisaw mountain landis
09:38banned them from major league baseball the black sox scandal did enormous damage to the game after the
09:44black sox scandal people got you know a little down on baseball say well it's a crooked game
09:49and that's when the baseball gods intervened as ruth was sold to the yankees for 125 000
09:57so the red sox owner could finance a broadway play ironically the game's biggest star was now on its
10:06biggest stage
10:09perhaps the perfect contrast to move attention away from the black sox and back
10:14on the field and the wonderful things that could happen on a baseball diamond came this bigger
10:19than life player babe ruth he came over from boston he started hitting those home runs and the fans
10:27really loved the babe ruth brought baseball back and people started liking baseball players again no one
10:35could match his power and consistency he hit more home runs in 1920 and 21 than any other team
10:4154 home runs in 1920 50
10:50totally unprecedented he was one of the very greatest hitters ever in a style that didn't exist before he
11:01showed that it could work he uppercut the ball and hit these long soaring high fly home runs at a
11:09time
11:09when it wasn't thought to be possible to do that consistently it was almost like he was sent from above
11:18baseball savior he walked the earth he performed miracles he could do things that
11:26not that no one else in and that era could do he was fantastic
11:34was also the perfect leading man for the roaring 20s the babe lived life to its fullest and then some
11:43babe came along at just the right time in american history and american culture folks were just
11:50naturally drawn to his personality and his penchant for the dramatic there ever was a time that i'm
11:56going to try to hit our own one it's sure going to be today for you boys he was a
12:00guy that always
12:01loved to be on stage babe was that kind of a person he had a lot of flair ruth is
12:08the only player i know
12:10that when he came out on the field everybody stopped it was like the star came onto the center stage
12:18and this star was so big in fact he single-handedly built a legendary new home for the yankees
12:26you know his popularity yankee stadium the original one
12:31the real one uh because of his ability on the field leads to the building of yankee stadium
12:37which opens the game was more beholding to him and that's why he could get away with it
12:41there was also the matter of his weight in 1925 he collapsed on a train in baltimore
12:47and was rushed to the hospital an incident called the bellyache heard round the world reports of his
12:54demise were premature for a 1926 who led the yankees to another pennant helped in large part by a strapping
13:01new first baseman named lou gehrig ruth hit third gehrig hit fourth and his name was henry lewis gehrig
13:13that was a bad crew to face they were such good hitters strong years and we had to be careful
13:21ruth and gehrig would make a dynamic duo for years to come and their best was close at hand
13:30still to come on yankeeography murderers row the yankees in 1927 won 110 games they had gehrig
13:42and ruth and lazary and musil and combs those fellows all batted over 300 and hit for distance these
13:51yankees brought championship honor and glory to yankee stadium and to all of new york
13:58the 27 team is considered maybe the greatest baseball team of all time and ruth sits right
14:04in the middle of it he is the jewel in the middle of that murderers row crown
14:111927
14:13in our murderers row
14:17gehrig was pretty much a mobster and ruth was a serial killer
14:24the other guys were just mass slaughterers
14:31witness ruth's most amazing accomplishment as he sought to break his own home run record
14:37previously he had set the record of 59 home runs people wondered if he could ever muscle up again
14:42to hit 60 at the end of the season last game of the year he hits number 60 and sets
14:48the record for all
14:49time the bambino was crowned king of swat by manager huggins 1927 when he was supposedly after his prime is
14:5620 hits his 60 home runs
15:00simply put the number 60 left baseball fans
15:03in awe and though it's since been passed ruth is still today considered by many
15:09the home run king
15:11he did it in 154 games
15:15i'm sure somebody hit more in the steroid they are
15:19in 154 games
15:21but they were on steroids
15:26he's the first one that ever hit 60 home runs
15:30i wondered what he did today probably hit 100.
15:35when babe did that it was so far beyond what other players were capable of and despite the fact that
15:43you've got sosa and mcguire and bonds achieving what they have i think baseball still looks back to 60
15:51as to mark
16:02by 1930 babe ruth was so big no one blinked an eye when he was rewarded with the largest sports
16:09contract ever
16:11ruth is a contract called for eighty thousand dollars for two years
16:15has to be agreed to bond when you finally sign it yes sir sir when some people said don't you
16:20feel
16:21guilty about making more money than herbert hoover the president of the united states babe said hell
16:26i had a better year than he did didn't i babe ruth personified
16:34hoover never hit a home run
16:37bide america
16:38as well as any person has ever personified a culture or its citizens ruth as he said he
16:44was bigger than the president that's why i got paid more money
16:46in 1932 ruth's six-year reign as home run king was snapped by jimmy fox of the philadelphia a's
16:55but babe found comfort in the yankees once again reaching the world series
17:00the babes 10th
17:01i think i'm a pretty fortunate fellow to get in my 10th world series i think that's going to be
17:06a record to stand for a long time
17:08the 32 world series came in the twilight of babe's career
17:13but he was still capable of memorable moments like his alleged called shot in that series
17:19it may have happened it may have not here's babe but i will say that i've had
17:25imagine being 37 which was like 55 or 60 back then and calling a shot in the world series
17:33thrills before something like uh hitting a home run in chicago that time the lord was with me when
17:40i called the shots the called shot home run in game three of the 1932 world series the angst playing
17:46the cubs is bad blood between the two teams that resulted in a lot of bench jockeying primarily from
17:53the cubs side directed at babe roots both clubs riding each other doing everything to get each
17:59other's good well at this one particular time when i went to baton jolly root was pitching and the
18:05first pitch ball was a call strike well i thought it was outside and didn't like it very much so
18:12the
18:12boys over there would give me this on you on you well the second pitch ball was another call strike
18:18well i didn't like that when i saw it out of the box and by that time they were over
18:24there going
18:25crazy well i looked down the center field and i torn it i said i'm gonna hit the next pitch
18:30ball
18:31right past the flagpole well the good lord must have been with me as he rounds the bases he gestures
18:40again to the cubs pushing at them with both hands as to say it don't ever challenge me again like
18:47this
18:48you know because i'm babe ruth and i can do what i want and so he did whether it's a
18:52true story
18:54or apocryphal it lives on today as a part of baseball lore i don't believe it i believe it did
19:02happen
19:02i will go to my grave not knowing for sure but uh frankly not giving a damn i'm glad the
19:09legend exists that i am sure
19:16showman the babe did endorsements vaudeville radio shows he even did movies
19:24babe's first film was heading home and in it he played a ball player the movies back
19:30and he briefly became the rival of john barrymore douglas fairbanks and gloria swanson ruth truly
19:37enjoyed making movies especially when the films feature children the fact is there are about as many
19:43images of ruth talking to kids as there are of his home runs watch for me next week now and
19:50i'll teach
19:50you more about baseball goodbye
19:55hey ruth was the pied piper of baseball certainly the most beloved player um maybe to play any sport
20:02in this country and and it is because of his genuine love and affection for children kids were drawn to
20:10him almost as if by magic he enjoyed the company of kids more than adults he had you could call
20:18it away i
20:19think it was a lot more than that now watch fastball curveball fastball curveball i think they realized
20:30that in his heart he was kind of like a big kid ruth never let the spirit of youth leave
20:38his heart
20:39and he never let a child in need leave his sight without first trying to make a difference
20:46i know that often he'd get some requests to come into yankee stadium from some kid that was sick or
20:52ill
20:52or in the hospital and he would take the time to go and visit and offer some encouragement to him
21:00by the best and largest smile i'm going to give this autograph ball to so we'll let you cut the
21:04pie first
21:06are you that's not funny oh look at that guy we found and interviewed lots of people who had
21:14met babe ruth or in some way been touched by him when they were kids and to a person they
21:20said he was
21:21just an incredible influence on them the best thing that ever happened to their childhood i wish every
21:27kid could have babe ruth for a father next on yankeeography daddy loved music once in a while i'd play
21:40the
21:40piano and he'd try and sing believe me that was one thing that he couldn't do
21:53and visit uh visit here in baltimore she loved it she loved the attention that her brother was
21:58getting he used to drive me nuts when they started applying now i wasn't used to that you know but
22:04oh they
22:05would just go mad once he proved his worth on the baseball field ruth set out to find a stable
22:12family
22:13life the kind that babe never had as a kid well after his first year in professional baseball he came
22:21back to baltimore he had met a waitress helen woodford in boston they became good buddies and developed a
22:29serious relationship babe and helen soon married and made a home for themselves in sudbury massachusetts
22:37when dorothy arrived in 1921 their family was seemingly complete it started out good as far
22:45as my understanding and i think the more popular babe became and the less he was probably around the
22:51household i think helen wasn't as used to it it was a rocky road and something that must have frustrated
22:56his wife incredibly helen died in 1929 their relationship had been strained beyond repair
23:04well before then and uh during that time babe had met in new york a woman by the name of
23:10claire hodgson
23:11and um they became
23:18i can't go on forever somebody's got to take my shoes and take my place but you can bet your
23:25sweet life
23:26but i won't play until i drop but i'll play until i damn near drop
23:36for as sad as baby he played well until he was in his late 30s
23:42misky park in chicago was the first third he was only fitting that the biggest star of them all
23:49but hit the first ever all-star home run
24:01ruth was as popular as ever and though time was taking its toll he reached some amazing milestones
24:07hitting his 500th 600th and 700th home runs as his career wound to a close ruth made clear his dream
24:16to move
24:17up to the next level babe always felt that he might be the next manager of the yankees
24:22and of course in hindsight you figure here's a man
24:27that couldn't even handle himself how could he handle 30 other ballplayers ruth held out hope
24:32that the yankees would dismiss joe mccarthy and name him manager but the team was quite happy with
24:38mccarthy so at the end of the 34 season babe left the field as a yankee for the final time
24:46then during the off season ruth received an offer from boston braves owner judge emil fuchs one he felt
24:54would fulfill his dream i now babe give you your unconditional release and now to the three
25:04matters in the world judge judge fuchs i'm going over to the braves on one condition and colonel will
25:12back those conditions up that when i'll be at your ball club you know that you're getting the very best
25:17that's in me and i'll be on the field every moment i can working hard for you just like i
25:22did with the
25:22yankees and the old boston red side judge fuchs gave him to believe that he would be the assistant
25:34manager and that he could look forward to managing the braves and that was the only reason that uh
25:41daddy signed on with him but ruth soon discovered that fuchs had no intention of promoting him to
25:48manager he was hired simply to put fans in the stands and what they saw was not babe at his
25:54best
25:55and he really was out of shape over the hill washed up um not doing well not playing every day
26:03aches and
26:03pains but he goes in to to pittsburgh and in may and he hit three home runs in one game
26:11one of them
26:12was the longest home run ever hit at forbes field ruth's third home run was number 7 14 his final
26:20home
26:20run and his final major league hit i think babe over the years after his career as a player was
26:29always devastated that he was never named to manage in the major leagues not only the yankees reject his
26:36services as a manager everybody did briefly the babe coach first base for the dodgers
26:43funny everybody's been asking me what i think about coming to brooklyn
26:46i want to say one thing and i'm proud to be with brooklyn and the wonderful fans they got over
26:51there
26:52babe wanted it so badly he was taken advantage of by the game and by those franchises that hired him
26:58so i think about that and i don't think it's a a good chapter in babe ruth's life
27:03this did little to diminish the babe's legacy as he was part of the first class of hall of fame
27:09players inducted at cooperstown the ceremony reminded everyone just how amazing his 22-year career really
27:18was you know to me this is just like an anniversary myself because 25 years ago yesterday i pitched my
27:25first baseball game in boston for the boston red sox so it seems like an anniversary for me too and
27:30i'm
27:30surely glad it's a pleasure for me to come up here and be picked also on the hall of fame
27:34thank you
27:37in retirement ruth continued to promote the game and did his part to help raise money for the war
27:43effort in 1946 however he began to complain of pain over his left eye and was soon diagnosed with cancer
27:52his family and doctors kept the diagnosis
27:59he kept asking what's the matter with me why don't uh why can't they find out what's the matter with
28:06me
28:07and uh and get me well again they never came right out and said look you've got cancer and it's
28:15in an
28:15operable spot we can't do anything about it april 27 1947 was declared babe ruth day throughout the may
28:26this this cruel imagine hurting and being in that much pain and not knowing why julie's of course the
28:37most poignant ceremony was at yankee stadium looking down at daddy and seeing him looking so frail
28:50and so sick i was on the verge of tears thank you very much ladies and gentlemen you know how
28:59the
28:59admirals sound well it feels just as bad he was so uncomfortable and in such pain but
29:07he all the people had come out and he wanted to thank them and i'm glad that i've had the
29:15opportunity
29:16to thank you to thank you the following year at the 25th anniversary celebration of the 1923 team
29:25ruth took the field in yankee stadium one last time
29:32leading on a bat he borrowed from bob feller ruth looked out upon the very house he built
29:38and then he said goodbye
29:43two months later at the age of just 53 babe ruth was dead the nation just mourned it was almost
29:51like a
29:52president dying his body laying at rest at yankee stadium which is unheard of you know people waiting
29:58for hours to go through no i don't think it was like the president dying no president in the last
30:1180 years had been like that much not even uh the two roosevelts
30:24everyone just get a small glimpse of him his service at saint patrick's cathedral brought thousands
30:31more out into the rain to say thank you one last time i remember as i came out of the
30:38out of the
30:39church i looked and all you could see on both sides of fifth avenue were people i remember thinking all
30:47these people standing out there in the rain almost saying goodbye
31:00we now return
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