Wonderful newsreel footage (with sound!) of opening day at Yankee Stadium 1931

[base_ball]

https://youtu.be/HNe9OM43EZs

This was posted on Youtube today. See Babe Ruth take batting practice. See Lou Gehrig ground into a double play. Goosebump quality.

[ullmandds]

That IS INSANE footage!!!! The clarity...and the awkwardness...AWESOME!!!

[Bliggity]

Amazing! The crack of the ball coming off Ruth's bat at 0:42 and 0:50 is unreal. Wish you could bottle that stuff and sell it.

And I don't think I've ever seen someone swing the bat as fast as he does right at the 10:00 mark.

[Buythatcard]

That was a really cool video. Best quality for 1931 that I have ever seen. So cool to see the players on the cards that we collect come to life.

When Ruth said No scorecards, I wonder if he refused to sign scorecards. Probably worried that someone might sell it on eBay one day.

Was that Bing Crosby throwing out the first pitch?

Thanks for sharing!!!!

[Hankphenom]

There is a smorgasbord of films like this at the U. of South Carolina video archives, including lengthy segments from many big league spring training camps in the early 1930s:

https://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/search...%28baseball%29

The beauty of these for me is that they are outtakes, not the polished newsreels, so you get to see and hear the players and other personalities as they really were.

[nat]

That really is amazing. I think Ruffing was wearing a warm-up jacket while running the bases.

Here's a box score for the game.

[Bicem]

So good!