Babe Ruth and The Called Shot

[PSeanMoore]

your video is fucking retarded. it does not show the content that viewers are searching for, you should have never uploaded this video. i think you are a horrible human being.

[ZACKWELDERS]

news of the world hahaha

[baseballfreak1125]

google benwahrlebaseballparks

[danteras23]

He was really saying one more strike, but since it was Babe Ruth and he hit a HR on the next pitch everyone thought he was pointing and he went with it. Why not? It's a great story.

[mrberstein]

I love old news reels they were/are awesome!!!!!

[1EPowerUp]

i say he did just about anyting BESIDES calling his shot

[LacDenis]

I can prove he called his shot. Simple history. First, the papers indicate that he both called the count and then pointed his finger. Second, I am a Babe Ruth nut. I have watched many videos of him playing baseball. I have NEVER seen him point like that before. I don't care what the pitcher claims to quote Babe Ruth as saying. Just ask his daughter and wife. They say he never got over that one pitch. Sounds like a lot of motivation to lie and say it wasn't a called shot. First called shot ever.

[screwdabrewcrew]

@LacDenis Nothing came out about Babe Ruth calling his shot until 10 days later. You can asj Charlie Root's wife or daughter about it. His daughter is still alive. She even talked to him on his dethbed and he said You know I was a pretty good pitcher and had some great seasons with the Cubs . It just sucks that I'll be best remembered or something that never even happened.

[Rams102889]

@LacDenis How is this proof?

[LacDenis]

I can prove he called his shot. Simple history. First, the papers indicate that he both called the count and then pointed his finger. Second, I am a Babe Ruth nut. I have watched many videos of him playing baseball. I have NEVER seen him point like that before. I don't care what the pitcher claims to quote Babe Ruth as saying. Just ask his daughter and wife. They say he never got over that one pitch. Sounds like a lot of motivation to lie and say it wasn't a called shot. First called shot ever.

[detoth67]

Charlie Root (the pitcher) met Ruth a few years later and said "you know, you didn't call that shot". The Babe said "I know, but this makes a better story". Root said "if you did, I would have thrown it right down your throat."

It never happened!

Which brings me to: has anything historical ever happened at Wrigley? They've had 100 crappy seasons, and the most famous thing that ever happened there, never happened.

Its seems to be historic only because its old.

[floydfreak63]

why is the world so full of douche bags?

[DANDON323]

I think he was flipping a booger that was stuck to the tip of his finger.

[salemlaxrocks]

Thats bull it is really hard to hit where you want it to go and you should be surprised

[salemlaxrocks]

True

[wolvekr3w]

HAHAHAH BAHAHAH..... bAHAHAHAH!!!!!

[JohnnyMac496]

complete and utter faggotry

[Back2Brent]

This was discovered in the archives of central library, their media division.

[RayPaterson]

That would be.. "You're killing me, SMALLS."

[imvinnybarbarino]

bye bye red sox baack to losin to the yanks as usual.

[DSky2001]

big fat F

[piggiebob1234]

screw u redsox fans suk and to call a shot is amazing u tell me exactly how many other people have done this

[daewen6]

thx for watsing my life on this pointless junk

[hung1998]

if only mickey mantle played with the bambino and iron horse they would be unstopable

[meness93]

don't forget dimaggio,maris,berra,and jackson

[chowhound88]

Yankees AreThe Best Team Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DanLightning]

Ya gotta love YouTube vids that not only don't deliver at all what is promised in the title, but has absolutely no point other than that; it's not funny, proves no point, doesn't open our eyes to a new way of looking at the subject.

[havee3333333]

I love how people get so obsessed with this called shot... He got lucky... The pitcher gave him something to hit and he just crushed it like good old Babe Ruth crushed it... He had a realy high slugging percentage so if he called a shot like that the chances hes right will be higher than anyother baseball player. People just get excited because it's not everyday you see that happen... Plus amagine what the pitcher must be going threw... I mean Babe Ruth was batting and he called a shot :o

[richardhkirkando]

Benny the Jet Rodriguez should have just asked him when he had the chance.

[raidernick2]

a man funny comment lol hahaha... thats the sandlot really funny man

[rewindtmj]

haashhah aggreeeeeeeeed

[rumney84]

sorry i meant Paul Henderson... got a little mixed up

[sillypantsochasy]

i just read a book called babe and me and and its all about this its an awesome book

[tsunami11]

I called a home run in wiffle ball one time -- its no big yip...

[skinnydude911]

Obviously the CALLED SHOT is a myth and due to RUTH dominance over his era it becomes legend but clearly not fact. The fact th

[bhackett777]

i say he flipped off the pitcher

[LazlosPlane]

the latter reference (the original) is from the poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson with reference to the first shot of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

[smartnessness123]

yea thats what i was talking about...but then all these other people came in here talking about all these other shots heard round the world

[LazlosPlane]

No. The "Shot Heard Round the World," was Bobby Thompson's home run against Ralph Branca in 1951, winning the pennant for the Giants.

Or, it was the first shot of the Revolutionary War.

[kingufokid]

i have seen the film were he supposedly called his shot. and yes some old lady had reall footage. and he didnt call that shot in that game. like the onouncer said he was confused with 2 seperate games

[LFD254]

I've seen it too. He is definaelty gesturing, probably pointing to the Cubs bench given the angle. Whatever he was doing, he came through-he showed up the other team and the whole damn crowd with one swing.

[Chamberlindsey]

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[xlegionx]

He was pointing to the Cubs dugout.

[oxenpigpen2]

This is such a fake

I think he called it

[iDuffdabestweed]

he called his shot, an interview was done to a kid who was at the game, now hes like in his 80s, and he sed that ruth pointed to wher he was gonna hit it and he did it

[TubeNumber2]

Johnny Moore, the Cubs' outfielder whose head the ball flew over, was my friend's grandfather.

Babe and his wife were the targets of Chicago's mocking from the moment the Yanks arrived in town.

If Babe didn't call the exact location - he clearly indicated his intention to knock it out. The ball sailed about 450 feet. Lou Gehrig followed Ruth with another home run.

[Ecksntrick8]

There was a documentary I saw was a while ago. After the called shot, a bat boy or someone asked him, you called that, didn't you Babe? And he said, why, you didn't think I did? So, he apparently did.

[theheartbreakkid54]

wasn't that called the shot seen 'round the world er somtin?

[dwhite089]

I think you're talkin about the "Shot heard round the world"..and no, that was when Bobby Thompson hit a Walkoff HR in '51 to clinch the NL pennant for the Giants

[smartnessness123]

i thought the shot heard round the world was the shot the started the American Revolution?

[TubeNumber2]

That's right! . . . and it was Bobby Thompson who fired it : )

[xlegionx]

It was. But so was what he's talking about. They called it that because so many troops overseas were listening to the game on the radio.

[rumney84]

there have been tonnes of shots heard around the world. like for example when Glen Anderson scored against the Soviets to give Canada the win that is one...

[rootber200]

even though every major leauge baseball player will say he did. you add this shit.

[billmkyzl]

It is more fun to believe he did it. So believe.

[goseahawksdavid]

so did he do it or not

[rebisdead]

Yes he did - He pointed to the centre field bleachers before unleashing a home run to this area on the very next pitch.

[Back2Brent]

When I dug through the papers that covered the game, i think he did...and he did the thing where he held up his hands, saying what the pitch count was "Thats one...Thats two...". Usually the historians say the pitch count bit was mistaken for Ruth calling his shot. The newspaper in the film reports that many people could not get in the game because of the crowd and missed the top of the first. The paper claims that he did both...so I think he did call his shot.

[DCSk8er529]

he did call his shot cos he hit the ball where he pointed. the new yankee stadium should be named "babe ruth stadium" in honor of babe ruth's greatness to baseball. btw i used to play baseball when i was younger.

[jonnielf]

@goseahawksdavid he did i had the pleasure of going to the babe ruth museum in Maryland and they had actual footage of this glorious event. its really hard to see but u can tell that he does

[Kenoman29]

Nice fake audio.

[Zboy0112]

ruth rules!

[cowboys5555]

at the end he was just throwing away his second bat....

[91basket]

hehe nice.

[Diorama42]

babe ruth was actually a chocolate bar

[spacepluto]

not baby ruth....

[TeAbAgGeDtOdEaTh]

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[dennis040404]

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