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


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^ 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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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