The Babe Bows Out: Behind Nat Fein's Photo Of Babe Ruth | 100 Photos

The Babe Bows Out: Behind Nat Fein's Photo Of Babe Ruth | 100 Photos | TIME

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On the day the Yankees retired Babe Ruth’s number, Nat Fein’s instinct to shoot him in 1948 from behind paid homage not only to the baseball legend but to the House that Ruth Built.
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The Babe Bows Out: Behind Nat Fein's Photo Of Babe Ruth | 100 Photos | TIME
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@chrisj197438 6 жыл бұрын

The fact that almost a hundred years later everyone in America knows who Babe Ruth was speaks to how influential he was on our country.

@RSR423 5 жыл бұрын

No, its just a matter of what gets advertised.

@albertdimas2946 4 жыл бұрын

MANCHESTER UNITED his point was , "EVERYONE IN AMERICA" knows, we ain't talking about the world or soccer

@robgeorgia8801 3 жыл бұрын

@MAN UTD Soccer is a woman's sport in America. Soccer Moms.

@ericporter831 3 жыл бұрын

@MAN UTD are you a bot

@Dorsilvaa 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a Namibian and I also know him, one of those phenomenal people we had on earth.

@dustinharrison3491 5 жыл бұрын

For a human to keep touching live's more than 100 years later is truly awesome.

@johnfoster535 4 жыл бұрын

I went to a school that was built in 1924 when I was a boy in the 1960s. The library had books written from the time it was built. My favorite was the biography of Babe Ruth and the story of how Father Mathias at the Industrial School for Boys taught the Babe how to play....it never mentioned it was an orphanage and reformatory. A retired man on my paper route had played with the Yankees and later became a scout for them. He knew the Babe and loved him. He SAW Babe make his called shot in 1932.....he was THERE !! Babe Ruth WAS baseball itself. He was a gigantic hero and spirit of our nation to millions of boys who would endure the great depression and survive WWII. Just before his death, he presented his memoirs to the Yale library during a ceremony held on the Yale baseball field. The Yale captain accepted this book and shook Babe's hand....it was G.H.W. Bush....future President.

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

Never heard this tory before.

@humbertocellig 4 жыл бұрын

Heroes are remembered, but legends never die. So long, Babe. Legend! Always in our hearts.

4 жыл бұрын

*Heroes ARE remembered.

@humbertocellig 4 жыл бұрын

@ thanks for the correction pal

@Nmax Жыл бұрын

The Bambino, the sultan of swat, is a legend

@LucasTOrz 6 жыл бұрын

I know nothing about baseball and don't even understand why American loves it so much, but this pic is very touching along with the narration, pure black and white era

@scottschoppert9149 4 жыл бұрын

It was called America’s past time everyone played back in the day my grandpa would take a hand car and him and his buddies would travel on the railroad tracks to and from the games

@goodnight8169 4 жыл бұрын

@corwin11412 I think it only three. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

@loadedlistening9384 4 жыл бұрын

Every pitch is an opportunity to score.

@genemars5158 3 жыл бұрын

@Kent Horvath - You should just shut up.

@coleparker 3 жыл бұрын

Well, I do not know why a lot of people like Cricket or Futbol.

@ddrose06 6 жыл бұрын

A force of nature. Today you have people that are famous just for being famous. They will all be long forgotten when the Babe is still remembered.

@cryptidian3530 5 жыл бұрын

That's what separates people like Babe Ruth and people like Lebron James, that are goof balls off the court and are basking in their own ego.

@dustinharrison3491 5 жыл бұрын

Like those dumb as Kardashian sluts. Famous for no reason at all and it's sickening.

@dustinharrison3491 5 жыл бұрын

**dumbass**

@helck1153 4 жыл бұрын

@@cryptidian3530 so you are telling me you genuinely don't know how much Lebron James gives back to community?

@gogostyle33 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I could go back in a time machine and live during that period in time.

@danielkelegian5306 4 жыл бұрын

The roaring twenties. Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey.

@WiffGiff Жыл бұрын

Probably not considering many things. Going back to watch these players sure. But baseball got better few decades later and much of society as well.

@gogostyle33 Жыл бұрын

@@WiffGiff I'm intrigued by the era. Yes society and inventions got better, but I'm not worried about all that. As far as baseball goes I don't think you can beat Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig...I would take that generation of baseball players over all.

@stevenelief6784 3 жыл бұрын

What a moving tribute to a legend. Most baseball fans know the significance of that picture. Well done. Steven Elief

@jeremyfrancispiano2 3 жыл бұрын

I teared up at this. I haven't been a real big fan of baseball since I was a kid. I remember it was my favorite sport when I was about 10 years old. I signed up for little leagues but I cut my leg in a clumsy accident and my mom wouldn't let me play that season. I had only played one scrimmage before my accident. I kinda gave up on the sport from that time on. Recently, for some mysterious reason, I've been drawn back to this sport that I once loved. I've been reading books and watching movies and documentaries all about baseball in the past few weeks. And now, it seems like I've started a new obsession. I really am in love with this game! There's something mystical about it: the different stadiums, the history.... it's almost become like a religion for me. This video was touching. I watched it during my break at work and had to hold back my tears. Well done. Great tribute.

@ArinGokdemir 5 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful, chilling photo.

@sovereignrightbeautiful1960 6 жыл бұрын

Babe in his autobiography said the thing he was most proud of was that he had met more kids than anyone on Earth! Think of the impact of that statement. He was the first superstar in sports as far as I could tell. When he retired the closest to him in Homers had less than 1/2 of what he had. He stayed true to those from St Mary's orphanage who helped this "incorigible" young man and developed his love for baseball. Yes there is a God and somehow someway the Babe had an invisible halo around his head on the field. For me, he was larger than life - a fairy tale - a pleasant dream - a champion

@666needffullthings66 5 жыл бұрын

Well said

@rickroybal7022 5 жыл бұрын

Amen to that. We love our heroes. He was the greatest.

4 жыл бұрын

Beautifully stated.

@warcriminal1276 6 жыл бұрын

At least he was there at Yankee stadium for the last Goodbye, hopefully he realized how many he touched throughout life.

@mikemarek6243 4 жыл бұрын

Including the women

@nickswing159 5 жыл бұрын

Stuff like this just warms people's hearts...we need to get back to the grass roots love and connections that Americans need now a days.we need to have this spark of unity and love again.

@loganceiley4731 5 жыл бұрын

Legends never die. He is still here with us in our spirits.

@Builder99 6 жыл бұрын

we all loved the Babe...He had courage and a great spirit to stand out there for the world to see him...He was so good to kids...RIP Babe...

@Will-hj1gj 6 жыл бұрын

His fans were literally his family

@langdonmoore1404 4 жыл бұрын

MANCHESTER UNITED Nobody asked

@jumpbacktome 6 жыл бұрын

There's something about these videos that makes me feel emotional. I don't even like baseball but the way this frames this photo is really touching.

@bigdawg1758 4 жыл бұрын

Adding the color to this film was just fantastic.

@yophiosantiago 4 жыл бұрын

I am here after watching The Babe with John Goodman. 2020 now and it's still great! What a legend.

@bamafan62 6 жыл бұрын

one of my dear friends was on the field that day honoring The Babe, Hall of Famer Joe Sewell. i met Mr. Sewell a few years before he passed and became close friends. He was standing on the baselines with the other former players. He was team mates of the Babe for 3 years before he retired in 1933, then remained with the team for a year or so as a coach. He told me that it was terrible seeing Babe like that and that everyone was crying, but trying to hide it from Babe

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

Remember Sewell. Excellent player.

@fearsomename2745 3 жыл бұрын

The house that Ruth built. You damn right.

@VirantRoss 6 жыл бұрын

They need to make a new more modern Babe Ruth movie!

@a_personofearth5808 6 жыл бұрын

Ross Best agreed

@VirantRoss 5 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid that black culture has taken over mainstream America & pop culture and unpopularized whites.. & The BAMBINO

@VirantRoss 5 жыл бұрын

You Tube Young children don't know the story

@kevinbutler1126 5 жыл бұрын

There are three movie bios about Babe Ruth..why should another one be created and produced?

@jazzmanchgo 5 жыл бұрын

@@kevinbutler1126 I know about two of them -- the 1948 one with William Bendix, and the 1992 one with John Goodman. Neither one was very good. What's the third? Personally, I think his life (and his personality) was full of complexity, light and dark sides -- he almost invented "celebrity" as we know it, for both good and bad -- A good, uncompromisingly honest biographical movie would still be very timely.

@pxrmise3163 4 жыл бұрын

who would dislike this it is amazing

@Whosaids0 5 жыл бұрын

Thats big in society. There is a man who appreciated life.

@idiotsavant8419 7 жыл бұрын

This should have a billion views.

@humanbeing4695 6 жыл бұрын

Idiot Savant Totally agree

@dustinharrison3491 5 жыл бұрын

Most people are preoccupied with shit that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of life. Social media, how others precieve them, bs like that. Our society nowadays mostly focuses on superficial bullshit. It's sad but true.

@BonnChnd Жыл бұрын

That’s so cool…to me, he will always be The Greatest baseball player in history. Thank you for that iconic photograph Mr. Fein.

@marstondavis 5 жыл бұрын

Don't you know how much fun it would have been to hang around with Babe? I'll bet you'd laugh yourself silly.

@his_redeemed9861 5 жыл бұрын

Wow... i remember this day like it was only yesterday. Such a long time ago.

@MysteryXbox 3 жыл бұрын

No way you were alive in 1948

@WeBreakItAllDownRightHere 5 жыл бұрын

As long as there is baseball, the legend of Babe Ruth will continue. He is the standard by which all great hitters will be compared to.

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

Moves one to tears. Rest in peace, Babe. We will say an Ave for you, today on Easter Sunday.

@michaelrivera2212 6 жыл бұрын

This man was a living legend

@nauticamatt 4 жыл бұрын

Babe Ruth didn't need baseball, Baseball needed Babe Ruth he single handedly saved the game

@jeffreythomson7671 5 жыл бұрын

Santa Babe asked the little girl what she wanted for Christmas. She answered, "a baby brother." Santa Babe said, "I'll speak to your mother about that."

@TheSassy777 Жыл бұрын

Greatest Baseball Player⚾️

@TheDizdawg34 6 жыл бұрын

What a great video. I enjoyed the statement that this photograph “captures American History and American Mythology.”

@melvino8926 4 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. babe

@thatmannarbash7638 6 жыл бұрын

I can feel the sadness in these video like if someone I admired died and I never got over it

@BRuane-pw6xq 6 жыл бұрын

This picture and the one taken on July 4th 1939 at Lou Gehrig Day where Babe embraces The Iron Horse are two of the most iconic baseball photos ever. The Bambino and The Iron Horse two all time greats !!!

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

These two powerful men but both died young of disease.

@ALien-yz5do 5 жыл бұрын

The best of all time.

@breselexiapsychicmedium346 5 жыл бұрын

This gave me chills.

@albertdimas2946 4 жыл бұрын

That's beautiful, an emotional video...

@311man2 4 жыл бұрын

He will always be one of the baseball ⚾️ legends

@phumzilesinoritanyawose1892 5 жыл бұрын

RIP Babe Ruth know in 2018 u still remembered

@terryharris516 6 жыл бұрын

He taught that just because you are the best, does not make you better than. How did he teach this? By living it. That's right, he built that stadium. Just to hold all of his fans is why it was built.

@andykapsar4667 5 жыл бұрын

and now the stadiums gone. welcome to the price of progress

@barrymonroy7138 6 жыл бұрын

This was coolest thing ever!!!!🙂

@rstefanie2622 4 жыл бұрын

Met Nat at Belmont Park signing his photos. Cool guy. His story basically is that he was stuck in traffic and arrived late at YS, this the behind photo. If you look at the photos all the reporters are along 1B, thus he ended up with the photo.

@ipilot7734 6 жыл бұрын

I came here cause baseball brought me here for the greatest player of all time p.s I love history

@melvino8926 4 жыл бұрын

SuperMarioLucas I’m with you

@shylabhatia8933 2 жыл бұрын

school, *makes me watch this video* my mind,"try not to cry, try not to cry, DONT CRY." also me, *starts tearing up*

@kevinmiller6324 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine how many career home runs Ruth would have had had he not started out as a pitcher, or played in the deadball era?

@scottmanning8295 3 жыл бұрын

Love that movie with John Goodman the babe one of my favorite movies

@fanboy2015 5 жыл бұрын

Sports Illustrated should have named Ruth “Sportsman of the Century”. Not Michael Jordan. Ruth was the first bonafide sports superstar with incredible feats to back him up.

@jeffrice4713 2 жыл бұрын

@aDg 2k18 Mike Tyson?

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

Indeed. Jordan’s fame will fade in a few years, The Babe’s? Never.

@mainstreamcommercialnihili7057 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I grew up in this time. If I come back after I die, I’d relive it over and over again.

@666needffullthings66 5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@dthom88 3 жыл бұрын

this was great! thanks for putting this video together!

@siva40 5 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful.

@AwesomeBeatles 3 жыл бұрын

Ruth loved live. The greatest athlete of our time.

@natem.3336 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I had the music that began playing at 3:30. Such a powerful song for a powerful video.

@BingCherry11 6 жыл бұрын

I am so sorry I was not alive in those days. I would have liked to have seen "The Bambino" play!!!!

@larryaldama1673 Ай бұрын

You would be very old or Dead 🤣☠️

@robertnycguyraisedonrecord7587 5 жыл бұрын

His fans dressed nice to say farewell and show respect to the Babe. Moving video.

@craigh.9810 3 жыл бұрын

In that era, people did not dress as casually in public as we do now. Look at all the old black & whites, you'll see the same thing.

@tomitstube 6 жыл бұрын

this event with ruth probably would have never happened had it not coincided with the 25 year anniversary of yankee stadium, the house that ruth built.

@robertmarzano9189 3 жыл бұрын

Babe Ruth will be spoken about 1,000 years from now. His memory and legacy will never die...

@FullBODYARMORofGODSsON210 7 жыл бұрын

#LEGENDARY

@michaelrivera2212 6 жыл бұрын

uhuh begone you closed minded person

@Builder99 6 жыл бұрын

and we will remember him so well long after your forgotten

@ArinGokdemir 3 жыл бұрын

The music soundtrack for this video is amazing, anyone know where it can be found?

@jerrymyers1798 6 жыл бұрын

So touching!

@fuzzywuzzy6596 5 жыл бұрын

The best ever!

@jacksuddeth1290 3 жыл бұрын

enough to make a grown man cry

@jmass5083 6 жыл бұрын

There is a story that connie mack invited babe to come an stay in Worcester Massachusetts on off season an babe agreed. They drank at the vernon its a old prohibition bar, the bar recently closed down such a shame we losing history.

@dimitriskorillis 10 ай бұрын

The best ever RIP Mr Babe

@joshuamoore4537 2 жыл бұрын

It’s poetic that the thing that held Babe Ruth up was a Baseball Bat; because Baseball was all that he lived for.

@GeorgeVreelandHill 5 жыл бұрын

714 home runs without drugs. They were real players back then.

@lloydkline6946 3 жыл бұрын

❤ babe ruth, greatest baseball player ever with ty cobb

@chrisbelli445 3 жыл бұрын

Weaker pitching tho

@wheelswills2895 6 жыл бұрын

The best

@StevenTorrey 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks....

@Shinobi33 3 жыл бұрын

The Babe could play in any era of baseball

@sr166 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up as a kid knowing not the man but knew what the BABE “ stood for!

@libertybong420 6 жыл бұрын

I think 3 should be retired throughout the majors just like Jackie Robinson.

@joeybryowsky3524 6 жыл бұрын

libertybong420 I agree with you

@johntuttle4486 6 жыл бұрын

Oh, please!

@adamskaocelot8382 6 жыл бұрын

john tuttle oh please? Babe Ruth is essentially god to baseball. You talk to any american and chances are they know who Babe Ruth is. He is probably the most iconic sports player in american history.

@libertybong420 6 жыл бұрын

JinRoh1898 exactly you can ask someone who has never watched baseball and theyll say they've heard of babe ruth ha

@jakedoc4610 6 жыл бұрын

wouldn't go that far. he had a huge impact on the game, but his social and overall historical perspective was no where near Jackie Robinson

@BRuane-pw6xq 5 жыл бұрын

People forget he was a very good Pitcher before he played Right Field. That Combo makes him The GOAT.

@666needffullthings66 5 жыл бұрын

He's larger then life he made the game in the 1920s important and it kept growing to what we have today only problem is the bums today are greedy they forgot why they play the game and it's not for the love of the game.

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

Pitched a game and won in 1933,

@Shinobi33 6 жыл бұрын

Best ever

@hbwoofspeedride4103 5 жыл бұрын

Look at the crows in stadium.. the way they dress super cool

@jeffkersting8278 6 жыл бұрын

The 13 people who disliked this, are juiced

@hgiesbrecht9819 6 жыл бұрын

#goat

@sabrinadubois5822 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve always loved the nicknames the press gave The Babe: The great bambino The sultan of swat The colossus of clout The big bam The behemoth of bust The wazir of wham The maharajah of mash The walli of wallop The terrible titan

@DaveB2868 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful impressive touching video ♥

@chrisfranco6603 4 жыл бұрын

The early part of the video...when the babe is rounding third quickly...that’s early 1920s there. Rare footage.

@jaleckmichdochamarsc 4 жыл бұрын

the babe einer von wenigen die euren sport so groß gemacht haben schöne videos

@juki0h391 6 жыл бұрын

all good things must come to an end

4 жыл бұрын

THAT isn't the point.

@jojotorres20 6 жыл бұрын

At 5:39 that momentum happy Gilmore hopswing

@jamesrobinson949 6 жыл бұрын

GOAT

@kzsillywilly 5 жыл бұрын

dont even follow sports and im cryin

@davidm4160 6 жыл бұрын

A day gone by

@yogologo8695 6 жыл бұрын

He's the best importante baseball player

@kenhernandez8128 Жыл бұрын

The GOAT

@andykapsar4667 5 жыл бұрын

i have a bit of an unrelated question. are the color stills and recordings originals or retouched in color? im really hoping original because the color adds as n entirely new dimension

@666needffullthings66 5 жыл бұрын

The babe is baseball nobody will ever compare he's the king and it's how it will always be and Ty cobb will always be second even though first into hall of fame play ball.

@eisenjeisen6262 5 жыл бұрын

Those were the old days but the great days and the Yankee days where they packed them in and every seat was taken, and .50 cents for bleachers and 1.10 for grand stand