the babe part 1

[kachinababe]

True story. My Grandmother played stick ball in the street with his Daughter and had received an autographed baseball from him. Unfortunately the ball was lost in a house fire back in the 1960's. :(

[DoubleDose86]

just found this on vhs, havent seen it since i was a kid, thanks anyways bud lol got to show the gf a piece b4 making her watch it

[SCARLEMSCARS]

I always thought this film was great and still is...I think Goodman did a great job as the babe

[ruoideptrai]

can't watch it.

[gol0500]

BABE RUTH EL MEJOR

[Dontwealldigmusic]

Hey see if he can hit the ball, yeah, huh huh, he probably cant even make the ball go one inch....

So much for wit...

[Dontwealldigmusic]

He sure was one ugly dude! You know the saying, "a face only a mother could love"

well... :)

[jmallton]

Statistically the greatest

[davidrediger]

Parts of this movie were filmed right here in my city of Danville IL. Sooo cool.

[smartamateur]

Baseball was in its death throes when the Black Sox Scandal of 1919 severely undermined the integrity and popularity of the game.

But then Babe Ruth came along...and reinvented America's favorite pastime forever.

[gopconservative78]

One of the past players that ever played the game

[delgado4652]

Wait, there ain't no pigs in this one!! o.O Oops, wrong Babe xD

[archieHOHO]

i love this movie

[Relda999]

Best Baseball Movie i've ever seen!!

[seasonedsevencolors]

pig has turned into baseball playing human?

[EmpressofUsa]

lol Young Babe is adorable xD

[TheWeareallequal]

thanx for posting

[MrBurgundy76]

Griffey would have better stats than babe if he didn't get injured so much...man Griffey was awesome. Also, this movie was a disgrace.

[maddogts]

hey- this was a good movie- it makes learn more about RUTH. Nice movie, about once a year- HBO plays it for a month. Thanks for the POST.

[badtown88]

This movie is quite entertaining, but it's INSANELY innaccurate even by Hollywood standards. Why did they have to change so much of his life? His real story is just as entertaining.

[bn3077]

one of my favorite baeball movies of all time

[wattever333]

is it just me or did they try to make him seem dumb in the movie? what's the story behind that? did he have a diagnosed problem? was he known for his strange behavior?

[dakelhdenes]

I Just Love This Movie Watched It Countless Times He Is The Best Not Like Pussy Steriod Players Today !!!

[5ballcharlie]

thanks for uploading this. I couldn't even find it along with cobb on graboid.

[ChansomePro]

Babe Ruth is my favorite player ever, even though he died almost 60 years before i was born.

[bunnyz324]

thats so funny that three mice would say "3 weeks later" from family guy reminds me of babe

[hlev123]

its going down the johnny flusher real quick

[burn771]

love the flyover shots of the real yankee stadium.

[cibida1]

great film....been looking for this at blockbuster and such. thanks for posting.

[lawrence142002]

Arthur Hiller is a hack director... But John Goodman was really good as Babe. Even though he was unhappy with the performance.

[jedarabbit1999]

WAt wat? who aaron who wateveer lol.

[SkodaExpress]

one of the greatest baseball films ever

[2yearoldsmoker]

One of the greatest humans ever.

[EnemyAce88]

They were the Baltimore Blacksox in those days.

[sexyfatbastid]

The orioles & blacksox are 2 different teams. blacksox are the negro leagues. But in the movie when she says,..the 1919 blacksox,..she's talkin about the chicago whitesox throwing the world series.

[OJohnTheReaper]

negative comments arent needed ya no?

[scotty9831]

@FAITHandLOGIC umm... thanks for the comment & no one forced u to watch it..

[WEGSxIRISH]

@FAITHandLOGIC thats basically what he was. he can just swing the baseball bat harder than the next guy.

[jasonvtaz]

Ruth wasn't always fat, at the beginning in school, and during his early pro years with the Sox he was quite lean.

[jmkeller]

This movie isn't too accurate, but it is good, nevertheless.

[TheDaleDenton]

@jasonvtaz that he was. he wasn't always fat but ya gotta say he was a BIG chunk of a man.

[twizy123]

that pig looks different from when i first saw this

[Relda999]

one of my favorite movies, Love you John!

[ryguybcp]

Horribly inaccurate baseball movie! yet i still like it.

[mitchbrewers]

Even if Albert Pujols does surpass Ruth in any offensive catagory which he might in some, I don't think that Albert will live up to the hype that Babe did, He pretty much as a perminate bench mark on baseball forever, He is even more then the Micheal Jordan of Basketball. Just my opinion though...

[oldlonesomesong]

What makes the Babe stand out was he was the first to do everything. He changed the game in massive ways. Noone regardless of the records broke will actually change basball in that way. and he did it first, he was IT. and whats really important in it all. Unlike some players he didnt need steriods to do it. Baseball today is because of him.

[2yearoldsmoker]

had 4500 less at bats then bonds and 9000 less then Aaron. And people still argue who the best hitter of all time was.

[rockerduff1231]

he played in a different era...there was barely any variety of pitchers compare dot today

Sure the deliveries were diverse but they are still diverse today. People throw harder now, add more spin, and throw a completely different style than they did in the 20s and 30s.

Babe ruth would never have hit 714 home runs in the modern era, and if hank aaron or barry bonds played in babe ruth's era they would have doubled their home runs

[cardamone1212]

i dont agree

[dennymon27]

@rockerduff1231 maybe Hank would have, but not barry because they didn't have steroids in the '30s

[mitchbrewers]

I don't know if its the best baseball movie ever, It is good, and i'm a Yankee fan, Don't let the Brewers part of my name fool you. I would have to say 61* is the best baseball movie ever, due to the fact that Roger Maris is my favorie player, then Field of dreams, then this one!! the for the movie!!!!!!

[Jermyn78]

In England we had a similar character to Babe Ruth, he was called George Best. Although he was a soccer player, like Ruth he was the best at what he did but then the fame, money, booze and women all took a hold and in the end it finished him off.

[oldlonesomesong]

George Best was amazing.  and yes he was the Footie babe.

[spenser828]

the great bambino,the king of swat,the babe,babey ruth he was known for these names......names america will rembmer forever RIP BABE RUTH RIP GEORGE HERMAN RUTH

[basbalfrk]

Any one know the name of the opening music score?

[skaterforlife999]

old yankee stadium demolished

[FAITHandLOGIC]

Worst baseball movie of all time.

[scotty9831]

So dont watch it!.....fag

[FAITHandLOGIC]

Haha. I'd love how people like you call others names who have a different opinion than you do. You wouldn't say that to my face so keep hiding behind your computer screen.

[hjb103055]

@FAITHandLOGIC It was pulled out of the theaters in 5 weeks. I also read that John Goodman was disappointed with his performance.

[STLRedbird11091]

The only player in baseball that can beat Babe Ruth's records and other GREAT GREAT Hall of Famers would be Albert Pujols!!!

[SIMPLYTEETS]

Are you kidding me?!? Albert is the best hitter in todays world... Key word today. Pujols can only dream of catching The Great Bambino. Babe has the best slug percentage of all time its like .680, than his whip plus his on base is untouchable. And 714 homers is such a stretch for Pujols... Also babe could hit homers almost on command. he would go to kids hospitols and hit homers for them Pujols can't do that.

[STLRedbird11091]

Albert is only 29 years old he has 1,672 hits; 359 homeruns; .628 SLG; and a .333 career AVG, and he does to hit homeruns kids in hospitals. He has only played for 9 seasons and just look at these numbers he will pass the Babe.

[SIMPLYTEETS]

Man, Pujols won't even hit 700 homers, let alone 650. At the rate he's hitting he'll get 625.

[handsomeboyofbh14]

just watched on tv this movie is great

[SIMPLYTEETS]

look at this i mean an out of shape all american guy. The greatest of all time. did it in the 30's and 40's. guys on steriods in the new milenium can't even touch him. He is the greatest. It shouldnt be called baseball, it should be babeball.

[tdevil101]

RIP YANKEE STADIUM

[GEPSiTO]

Good comedy!

[Bigstarrocker9]

without Babe Ruth. Baseball would be just never be a past time and MLB wont come to be. PERIOD

thanks for uploading

[fallendark666licht]

muy buena pelicula me gustaria si la pudieras subir subtitulada en español

[brnreede]

James Cromwell looks like he can itimidate anyone. Always a great actor with a great screen presence.

[MonsterZERO78]

here was a fat boozed up cigar chomping womanizer and he is the greatest of all time in my opinion. it's sad that players today think they need to be muscle men and shoot up roids. the whole jose cansaco thing broke my heart. haven't watched a ball game since.

[trustno1]

Love the sight of a priest doing everyday stuff. Saw a young one doing break dance and everyone around him went "go father, go father,..". Epic. XD

[mothia1]

scotty9831 you are right it is awesome

[coldfacedkiller17]

the japs in world war 2, to hurl the us troops the ultimate insult shouted, " to hell with babe ruth!" around the time when the japs really take an interest in baseball

[historychannel123]

BABE RUTH BUILT THE YANKEES !

[coldfacedkiller17]

i think he is responsible for the popularity of baseball in america...that's why he is called the savior of baseball...

i love this film...

[brewcrew01984]

Actually baseball was at it's most popular from the turn of the century until the 1919 BlackSox scandal. Ruth brought back the fans lost from that.

[Zerohero52]

Babe Ruth built baseball in general.

[PapagenoJuan]

Trivia: It was said George Herman "Babe" Ruth learned to walk on the slippery floors of his fathers saloon. The one smell he said he never forgot, was the smell of tobacco juice and beer stains on the floor. He never went to school and threw rocks at the coppers. His parents would never visit him.

Knew nothing of baseball until he went to the school of boys, where this film begins.

[PapagenoJuan]

thanks for uploading!!!

This is a great baseball movei!! :D

[egotumy31]

scotty you are a original

[Hania454]

This is an excellent film about a great man. Thanks for uploading scotty9831.

[scotty9831]

no problem its one of my favorites so i just wonted to share it

[MJ1341]

Also the Cleveland Browns is a different scenario.

The Browns came to the NFL after the AAFC folded. When Art Modell moved to Baltimore he agreed to allowing Cleveland to keep their records. So in effect he wasnt relocating the Brown's, he was starting a new expansion team. Not the same as the Orioles moving to NY. That was a relocation.

[marxbroths]

when you watch the first 6 mins and you wonder why people dont like chruch and priest its so easy to see why they have been like this for yearsss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SaneStarkiller]

where is the pig?!?!?!?!!? :O:O:O:O

[jtranmer]

This movie IS my childhood!

[HoosierPride260]

I love this movie!

I like the part in the begining -

Hw showed the entire school how to slug a baseball!

[razorsedgenyc]

TRIVIA NOTE: at the end of this part 1 (at aprox 09:50) Mr. Dunn of the Baltimore Orioles come to hire Babe. At this time the Orioles where a minor league team.

It should be known that at this time the NY Highlanders aka the NY Yankees did not exist yet or rather still resided in Baltimore with the Orioles name.

Babe's 1st team was the Yankees. That being the minor league Orioles of Baltimore that would eventually become the major league team of NY named the Highlanders and then the Yankees.

[scotty9831]

thats a bunch of bull he actually never played for baltimore he went to the red sox before he had the chance to and u cant honestly get ny out of a minor leage team

[rachsyeve]

No...its absolutley true, the NY Yankees were the Baltimore MiLB franchise and Babe played for them before going to Boston.

[deepcosmiclove]

The Orioles were in the National League for quite some time. Later another team named the Orioles were in the Western League which became the American league in 1901. The Orioles then moved to NY and became the Highlanders and then the Yankees.

[thunderstruck665]

Gonna be a shame to see The Stadium go but the new one looks fantastic. Really looks like the original Yankee Stadium before it was renovated. Boy, the text for the opening credits was afully generic! You would've at least expected the title to have the same text as in the posters and trailers.

[razorsedgenyc]

REPLY TO SCOTTY9811:

These same minor league Baltimore Orioles eventually became the New York Highlanders. Currently they're named the NY Yankees. Up to 2008 they played in the Bronx in a stadium nicknamed "The House That Ruth Built".

This is fact, you can look it up.

This movie is not fact based. It's a terrible movie making poor assumptions rather then holding to facts. It's not a true picture of the Babe. The Babe Ruth life would make a great movie, too bad this is not that great movie.

[MJ1341]

Not true. The minor league Baltimore Orioles were not the same AL Team that became the Yankees The Yankees started in Baltimore as the Orioles but they moved to New York in 1903. Babe Ruth did not enter the Majors till 1914. The Yankees had been in New York for quite some time by then.

[razorsedgenyc]

REOLY TO MJ1341:

Semantics!

My timeline is off but what I wrote is true. True in the same sense that the current NFL Cleveland Browns are the same NFL Cleveland Browns that has always been.

In your logic the current NFL Cleveland Browns are a different team then the NFL Cleveland Browns of the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's... you could argue this being true but as time moves onward, you'd be arguing semantics.

[MJ1341]

You dont get it. The Major league Orioles and minor league Orioles are not and i repeat not the same franchise. How can the minor league Orioles exist and be the Yankees at the same time? Granted minor leagues were the samme as we think of minor leagues today but that minor league Oriole team was not an AL team. The AL team moved to NY just like the AL Milwaukee Brewer's team moved to St.Louis to become the St.Louis Browns.

[razorsedgenyc]

No!

Refer to the NFL Cleveland Browns example. This is the same situation.

[MJ1341]

Why can you not get this? Go back and read your baseball history. The minor league Orioles can not be the Orioles that became the Yankees because the minor league team signed Ruth in 1914 when the Yankees were already around. If your logic was true then why would the Yankees sell Ruth to the Red Sox? Ruth was sold to the Red Sox because the minor league orioles had nothing to do with the major league Yankees. The minor leagues in those days were totally different from today.

[RungOozy]

I was suprised and very pleased to see that someone had uploaded this movie, Thanks for taking the time to do so.

[Merricat42]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for uploading this. I've been trying to find this movie again for months. Can't even get it from our library or local rental places. Much appreciated!