''What do you think of the nerve of that big monkey, calling his shot and getting away with it?'' Gehrig said.
I was just reading Jonathon Eig's The Luckiest Man and Gehrig hit a towering HR after Ruth's called shot but of course as was usually the case with Gehrig he was overshadowed by Ruth.
There’s no debate. I saw Bill Bendix recreate the event in the film.
Whenever I hear two eyewitness accounts of the same car accident, I always have my doubts about history.
After decades had passed, an Illinois man found his late father’s old home movies in an attic and, amazingly, one contained scenes of the famous ‘32 series game where Ruth “called his shot” and showed the actual event itself.
The Cubs in the third base dugout were razzing the left-handed hitting Ruth and he made several pointed gestures in that direction, across the field towards the Cubs dugout.
There is no dramatic pointing to center field as the Bendix movie portrays. Only gestures out across the field.
I believe the “called shot” is a bit of embellishment that could not be proven or disproven in its time and Ruth, wisely, let the legend grow rather than attempt to set the record straight.
Oh, yeah. Big man.
Commie deconstructivism.
Re-writing all history so there can be no heroes, except of course those approved by Stalin. And subject to airbrushing out of the picture as needed.
In Leigh Montville’s biography of the , was at a high-society dinner party in the following off-season. A woman, a member of British royalty, asked the about the called shot.
Babe recounted the story:
“Those f**kin bums on the Chicago bench were saying to me ‘you f**k*n bum” and riding me, and I told them ‘I’m going to hit the f**kin ball over the wall right there’, and ... (so on)”.
The aristocrat blushed and left the table. Ruth’s host pulled him aside and said “Why did you talk to her like that?”
Babe replied “Well, da*mit, she asked me to tell her what happened!”