Comments on: Bloops: Rare footage of Ruth and Gehrig Unearthed http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: SocraticGadfly http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387/comment-page-1#comment-101267 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:30:14 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10387#comment-101267 Loved the Ruth/Cobb/Johnson film at MLB that was linked in the story.

]]> By: Doug B http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387/comment-page-1#comment-101231 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:55:54 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10387#comment-101231 click on "From the NY Times" for the link.

]]> By: Stu Baron http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387/comment-page-1#comment-101216 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:03:16 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10387#comment-101216 How does one see the video? Is there a link?

]]> By: Lawrence Azrin http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387/comment-page-1#comment-101177 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:08:01 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10387#comment-101177 @3/ There is one particular piece of video of Babe Ruth swinging and running out a HR, that seems to be used in countless stories and documentaries about him - does anyone know the origin of that?

]]> By: luke mayo http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387/comment-page-1#comment-101126 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:02:35 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10387#comment-101126 pretty good speech from the babe at the inaugural hall of fame induction ceremony-did not realize such little video of ruth

]]> By: steven http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387/comment-page-1#comment-101085 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:48:41 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10387#comment-101085 Steroids in all those hot dogs? Maybe they called it "Human G-Ruth Hormone."

]]> By: DavidRF http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10387/comment-page-1#comment-101009 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:51:04 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=10387#comment-101009 Wow. Ruth was already a very large man at just 32 and half years old. Funny thing is that he aged better than most performance-wise. Look at his numbers *after* this video was taken:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml#1928-1935-sum:batting_standard

He still hit 195 OPS+ after that.

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