Rare footage of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig uncovered at USC (June 1, 1925)

RIP George "The Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), aged 53 And RIP Lou "The Iron Horse" Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), aged 37 You both will be remembered as legends.

Wow! Priceless footage. Thank you! 🇺🇸

Gehrig is tougher than woodpecker lips. This iron horse was built from the ground up. He was America. Babe is and always will be the HR hitting average Joe that will continue to be better than 99% of the league today. He is an enigma. Heros get forgotten but legends never die!

My son and I picked up a replica of Babe's bat.....it was a tree truck! nearly 45 ounces and imagine, in his time staduims were larger "deeper" and they used the mush ball. His swing had to move extremely quick through the strike zone and with power inorder to hit a home run and he made it look easy! Nobody put up the numbers like him....even hitting 10 homers in a season was incredible but then, 1919 with 29 homers! Awsome! and still...he had a .342 batting average! Now, take away his first 4 seasons as a pitcher and his last season and you have unbelievable numbers! 1918 - 1934

Every time I look at Babe I see Jonathan Winters. I don’t know why but I do.

At the end the Babe says "6 hot dogs, 3 beers and 2 flappers ought to do it!"

1:27 Lou Gehrig in the background, talking on his cellphone!

This film was taken on June 1, 1925, the day Gehrig's consecutive game streak started. The film starts at 0:22. The Yankees and Washington Senators are tied, 1-1, with Babe Ruth batting in the bottom of the 6th inning. Ruth had one of his worst professional seasons in 1925, a year he openly fought with the league and with Yankees management. Here, Earl Combs (unseen) is on first with one out. On the fourth pitch, Combs is caught stealing by Senators catcher Muddy Ruel. Ruth then grounds out to the second baseman, Bucky Harris. As Ruth walks off the field, you can see pitcher Walter Johnson walking behind Ruth, toward the Washington dugout. (Johnson looks as if he turns and says something to Ruth, who was yanked from the game after this at-bat, which is odd, since the game was tied and the Yankees were on a four-game losing streak. Manager Miller Huggins benched Ruth anyway.) After we watch Ruth play with a bat, we see him on the top step of the dugout, joking with teammates. (All this footage looks pre-game.) Directly behind Ruth is square-jawed pitcher Urban Shocker, who did not pitch that day. Gehrig is sitting down the bench to the right of Shocker, his legs crossed. He will enter this game as a pinch-hitter in the 8th inning and fly out to left field. The Yankees lose, 5-2. ... A nice little slice of history.

Somewhere out there is yet another can of lost film, labeled "Babe Ruth", and that roll of film has Lou Gehrig on it.

Who else thought it was USC in California?

It must have been amazing to have found this old footage, just imagine the excitement!

Lou Gehrig really was a handsome young man!

Man can't believe this footage is almost 100 years old😳😳When the Babe went up to bat,he was trying to hit the ball out of the stadium every time...

Ruth had that "swing hard in case you hit it" approach to hitting.

Somebody doesn't know their baseball! This is more about Babe Ruth despite the quick glimpse you get of Gehrig.

MLB decided to have a day to honor this magnificent player and man. Good move MLB. Bravo.

Does anyone else thing that Lou Gehrig looked a awful lot like Babe Ruth? ;-)

There have been many great baseball players but "The Babe" will always be the greatest.

This was his first appearance on the field after "the bellyache heard 'round the world." It was actually surgery to treat an abscess and intestinal issues. His recovery was rocky and he had persistent fevers, with some international newspapers printing that he'd died on the front page. 1925 was his worst year until he declined at the end of his career. Fun side note: Walter Johnson is pitching. You can see him walking off the field at the end of Ruth's at bat.

This was during Babe's 'lost season' where he was in horrible shape on and off the field and played horribly. He would rebound in a big way the following year though.