{"id":5756,"date":"2010-06-12T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T05:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2010-06-21T18:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T01:44:32","slug":"babe-ruth-talking-about-his-called-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/babe-ruth-talking-about-his-called-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Babe Ruth Talking About His Called Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Some time ago I picked up an early &#8217;90 vhs of classic baseball plays, and  partway through, there was Babe Ruth, hitting and then talking about his called  shot in the 1932 World Series vs. the Cubs. The less-than-perfect audio (with  music in the background)\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/BabeRuthCalledShot\">is on\u00c2\u00a0Archive.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I&#8217;ve written out the most relevant part of what Ruth said: &#8220;I looked out at center field and I pointed. I said,  &#8216;I&#8217;m going to hit the next pitched ball right past the flag pole.&#8217; Well, the  good Lord must have been with me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The clip has appeared on sports shows from time to time, but hasn&#8217;t received  much attention, and seems worth noting as a clear statement, presumably honest,  from the man who was on the spot. I understand that some baseball fans don&#8217;t  care about whether\u00c2\u00a0Ruth called\u00c2\u00a0his shot-it&#8217;s not among the world&#8217;s or baseball&#8217;s  urgent problems\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut it is interesting just to hear Ruth. He brings the scene of  his homer to life wonderfully, and speaks in a warm, confident, endearing voice  that&#8217;s not often found anywhere, much less among sports celebrities, and  helps explain why he was such a legend in his own time.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a p.s.: Ruth spoke at some point between 1933 and 1935, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TwoBabeRuthClips\">speculating on  when he&#8217;d retire<\/a>, and he repeated the idea that &#8220;the Lord was with me when I  called the shot,&#8221; which tells us that he probably got quite used to talking  about the homer in the years after he hit it, and that  he\u00c2\u00a0maintained\u00c2\u00a0his\u00c2\u00a0position about what he&#8217;d done.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arne Christensen runs <a href=\"http:\/\/miscbaseball.wordpress.com\">Misc. Baseball<\/a>, a blog assembling eclectic items about baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, and <a href=\"http:\/\/1995mariners.com\">1995 Mariners<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I picked up an early &#8217;90 vhs of classic baseball plays, and partway through, there was Babe Ruth, hitting and then talking about his called shot in the 1932 World Series vs. the Cubs. The less-than-perfect audio (with music in the background)\u00c2\u00a0is on\u00c2\u00a0Archive.org. I&#8217;ve written out the most relevant part of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8286,376,95,21225,236,8285,8277,1897,1034,1632,2591,3266,8284,8282,8280,8279,8278,8281,8283,124],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-1932-world-series","tag-babe-ruth","tag-baseball-fans","tag-baseball-history","tag-blog","tag-called-shot","tag-classic-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-flag-pole","tag-hasn","tag-homer","tag-mariners","tag-music","tag-own-time","tag-perfect-audio","tag-pitched-ball","tag-sports-celebrities","tag-sports-shows","tag-vhs","tag-world-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}