Film Shows Babe Ruth, at Leisure and Up Close (hat, women, stadium)

[filihok]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/sp....html?_r=1&hpw

There are so few moving images of Babe Ruth that even Major League Baseball’s monstrous archive contains less than an hour’s worth. The bulk of Ruth footage may, in fact, still be buried in basements or stashed in attics.

One recent discovery, from a cellar in Illinois, might be unlike any other, showing Ruth in his prime and shot from close range, sitting atop a pony while wearing a child’s cowboy hat and muttering into a home movie camera, as a boyish Lou Gehrig, who never had children and was known for his dignified demeanor, held children and framed his smile with big dimples.

[DOUBLE H]

Thanks for the "heads up" Filihok. Will check it out!

[Grandstander]

I'm not certain, but in that shot with the kid on the pony....don't we see Brian McNamee's and Greg Anderson's grandfathers in the background attending the party?

[Ridgerunner]

This thread reminds me that Gehrig made a western movie released in 1938 entitled "Rawhide" wherein he played himself as a ballplayer who retired early to become a Montana cattle rancher. I was disappointed in the movie and probably because Gehrig did not look or sound at all like Gary Cooper.

[filihok]

In The Pipeline: Local Babe Ruth footage unearthed - HB Independent

I've never seen anything like this. It's hard to fathom. So rare is the view that I don't even want to blink for fear of missing a split second. Did I really just see that?

Recently, at a signing for my new book, "Baseball in Orange County," an elderly woman and her stepdaughter Carolyn approached me.

Carolyn explained that her stepmom was the daughter of Glenn Thomas, the renowned auto dealer whose father, Walter, founded the Long Beach Auto Co., in 1909. And the women came bearing artifacts: rare images of Mr. Thomas with Babe Ruth taken at a dinner function in 1927.

[jtur88]

How times have changed. Imagine kids nowadays hanging around outside Yankee Stadium, and when Derek Jeter comes out, he buys them ice cream cones. Who says they were not the Good Old Days?