For anyone who doubted free-agent reliever Adam Ottavino when he said he would strike out Babe Ruth “every time,” this should convince you.
Newly modernized footage posted to YouTube this week shows Ruth and Lou Gehrig taking batting practice before an exhibition game in Brooklyn in April 1931. The original film was shot in slow motion by Fox Movietone News, a newsreel company, and preserved by the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collection. Here it is sped up to the modern standard of 60 frames per second.
Those are supposed to be two of the greatest hitters of all time?