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Incredible Video of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice, 1931 or 1932!

Gary Livacari

6 years ago

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Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Photo Gallery
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Babe Ruth hitting fungos, 1932

Bbabe Ruth and wife Claire

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Col Ruppert, Bob Meusel

Bob Meusel, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean

Babe Ruth, 1916

The Dean brothers with Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth hit the first one September 24, 1925

Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb at one of their challenge matches

Carl Reynolds with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

Babe Ruth and Lefty Gomez

Lou Gehrig, Joe McCarthy, Babe Ruth

Lou Gehrig, Earle Combs, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth

Lou Gehrig and babe Ruth

Babe Ruth with the Red Sox

Babe Ruth being fed Thanksgiving dinner by a group of orphans

George Sisler, Babe Ruth, and Ty Cobb at the 1924 World Series

Joe Cronin hit into an unusal triple play when his ball hit Odell Hale in the forehead into the glove of Bill Knickerbocker

Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Arky Vaughan, Charlie Gehringer, sportswriter Fred Lieb at 1936 All Star game.

Lou Gehrig with the player who replaced him, Babe Dahlgren

Lou Gehrig consoles Babe Dahlgren

Red Rolfe,, Frank Crosetti, Tony Lazzeri, Lou Gehrig

Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Tony Lazzeri

Bill Dickey at the unveiling of plaque for Lou Gehrig

All-Star Lou Gehrig with financee Eleanor Twitchell. Some reports say Lou met Eleanor at Comiskey Park, where the featured photo was taken.

A young Lou Gehrig at Columbia

Lou Gehrig with his mother Christina

Lou Gehrig sitting on dugout step., 1939, after his iron man streak had ended, with Lefty Gomez .

Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio, March 7, 1936 Spring training

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth on “Lou Gehrig Day”

Lou Gehrig, 1939

Hack Wilson, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig

Incredible Video of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice, 1931 or 1932!

Thanks to Chris Williamson for sharing this incredible video of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig taking batting practice. Be sure to watch on full screen and with sound.

I was able to pinpoint it to either 1931 or 1932 because coach Jimmy Burke makes a very quick appearance at the :50 second mark.

Lou Gehrig, Four homer game #3

Those were the only two years Burke was with the team. Jimmy came over with Joe McCarthy from the Cubs following the 1930 season after Yankee coach Charlie O’Leary retired. As I wrote in my SABR biography of Jimmy Burke, McCarthy’s first order of business after being hired by the Yankees was to hire his friend and confidante, Jimmy Burke.

The rest is confusing. The righty warming up is wearing #15, and then the lefty who appears is wearing #32. If 1931, the righty would be Roy Sherid, but there’s no lefty wearing #32. If 1932, Red Ruffing wore #15, but that doesn’t look like him, plus again no lefty wearing #32. So on the basis of Roy Sherid wearing #15 in 1931, I’m leaning towards that year.

Maybe a life-long Yankee fan can help me with those identifications.

Anyway, it’s a great video and I think you’ll enjoy it!

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