Babe Ruth's called shot is the
home run
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hit by
Babe Ruth
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of the
New York Yankees
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against the
Chicago Cubs
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in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the
1932 World Series, held on October 1, 1932, at
Wrigley Field
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in
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. During his at-bat, Ruth made a pointing gesture before hitting the home run to deep center field. One of the reporters at the game wrote that Ruth had "
called his shot", using terminology from
billiards
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. The episode added to Ruth's superstardom and became a signature event of
baseball's golden age.
Film of the event confirms that Ruth made a pointing gesture, but his intent remains unknown—whether he was promising a home run, or merely gesturing at fans or the Cubs in their dugout.
Background
Before Game 3, the Yankees and the Cubs had shown growing animosity towards one another. Various reasons have been given with one being Yankee manager Joe McCarthy's grudge against the Cubs who had fired him in 1930, despite winning the National League pennant the previous season. The other concerned Cubs player
Mark Koenig, who had been a big part of the Yankees' World Championships in 1927 & 1928 and had been traded to the Cubs mid-season in 1932. Using his mid-season arrival as the reason, the Cubs players voted that Koenig would only get half of his World Series bonus, which his old Yankee teammates saw as an insult when they'd heard. While warming up before Game 1, Ruth supposedly shouted to Koenig about how his Cub teammates were "cheap bums", which led to the Cubs players shouting back at Ruth, at which point other Yankees players joined in. The two teams continued to shout insults at one another from their respective dugouts during Games 1 & 2, both won by the Yankees in New York. Before Game 3, Chicago fans had joined in the fury, supposedly cursing and spitting on Ruth and his wife Claire as they arrived at Wrigley Field.
Event
There is no dispute over the general events of the moment. All contemporary reports say that the Cubs' players and fans were jeering Ruth mercilessly throughout the game. Fans pelted Ruth with lemons as he stood in left field and while at the plate.
Ruth responded to the rough treatment verbally and with physical gestures. Earlier in the game, Ruth had already hit a home run, and also nearly made a shoestring-catch that he missed and allowed the Cubs to tie the game, which led to even more heckling from the Cubs players and fans. With the score tied 4–4 in the fifth inning, Ruth took strike one from pitcher
Charlie Root. As the Cubs players heckled Ruth and the fans hurled insults, Ruth held up his hand pointing at either Root, the Cubs dugout, or center field. Ruth took strike two, and then he repeated this pointing gesture after each pitch.
It is unclear whether Ruth pointed to center field, to Root, to the Cubs' bench, or was just showing the strike count. In the 1990s, amateur filmmaker Matt Miller Kandle, Sr.'s film of the at-bat was discovered, but the film did not provide anything conclusive. In 2020, an audio clip was discovered from a radio show that originally aired on October 6, 1932 in which Lou Gehrig said that Ruth was indeed pointing toward the flagpole in center field.
Root's next pitch was a
curveball, and Ruth hit it to the deepest part of the centerfield near the flagpole. Estimates of the distance vary up to 490 feet. The ground distance to the center-field corner, somewhat right of straightaway center was 440 feet. The ball landed a little bit to the right of the 440 corners and farther back, apparently in the temporary seating in Sheffield Avenue behind the permanent interior bleacher seats. Calling the game over the radio, broadcaster Tom Manning shouted, "The ball is going, going, going, high into the center-field stands ... and it is a home run!" Ruth himself later described the hit as "past the flagpole" which stood behind the scoreboard and the 440 corners. Ruth's powerful hit was aided by a strong carrying wind that day.
Newsreel footage, available in MLB's ''100 Years of the World Series'', showed that Ruth was crowding the plate and nearly stepped forward out of the batter's box, inches away from the risk of being called out (Rule 6.06a). The film also shows that as he rounded first base, Ruth looked toward the Cubs dugout and made a waving-off gesture with his left hand; then as he approached third, he made another mocking gesture, a two-armed "push" motion, toward the suddenly quiet Cubs bench. Many reports have claimed that Ruth "thumbed his nose" at the Cubs dugout, but the existing newsreel footage does not show that. The
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game report stated that Ruth raised four fingers, signifying a home run, as he ran the bases.
Attending the game was
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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, then a
presidential candidate, as well as 12-year-old boy and future
associate justice
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of the
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John Paul Stevens
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. Roosevelt reportedly laughed while watching Ruth run the bases.
Ruth remained in the game but for only one more pitch, which the next batter,
Lou Gehrig
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, hit into the right-field seats for his second home run of the day. The Yankees won the game 7–5 and the next day they defeated the Cubs 13–6, completing a four-game sweep of the World Series.
Origins of the called-shot story
Ruth's second home run in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series might have been a mere footnote in history had it not been for reporter Joe Williams, a respected but opinionated sports editor for the
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newspapers. In a late edition the same day of the game, Williams wrote this headline that appeared in the ''
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'', evoking
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terminology: "RUTH CALLS SHOT AS HE PUTS HOME RUN NO. 2 IN SIDE POCKET."
[KARL VOGEL Lincoln Journal, Star. "Minden family's film shows Babe Ruth's "called shot' homer." ''Lincoln Journal Star (NE)'' 24 Dec. 1999: ''NewsBank - Archives''. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.] Williams' summary of the story read: "In the fifth, with the Cubs riding him unmercifully from the bench, Ruth pointed to center and punched a screaming liner to a spot where no ball had been hit before."
The wide circulation of the Scripps-Howard newspapers most likely gave the story life, as many read Williams' article and assumed that it was accurate. Several days later, other stories appeared stating that Ruth had called his shot, a few even written by reporters who were not at the game. The story was likely to meet with acceptance among the public, who were aware of Ruth's many larger-than-life achievements and his well-publicized fulfilled promise to sick child
Johnny Sylvester that he would hit a home run.
Some contemporary newspaper accounts, including that of famed writer
Damon Runyon, from the day of the game mentioned that Ruth simply gestured toward the Cubs' vocal dugout after each pitch with the current count: "He engaged in brisk repartee with the Cubs, and the fans. He made gestures with his hands in case his voice was not heard."
Others, such as that of William McCullough of the ''
Brooklyn Times-Union'', intimated that Ruth may have indeed signaled a home-run gesture: "With the count 2 and 2, Ruth motioned to the Cubs' dugout that he was going to hit one out of the park, and when a low curve came floating down the alley, he swung with all his powerful body."
At the time, Ruth did not clarify the matter, initially stating that he was merely pointing toward the Cubs'
dugout to remind them that he still had one more strike. At one point very early on, he said, "It's in the papers, isn't it?" In an interview with Chicago sports reporter
John Carmichael, Ruth said that he had not pointed to any particular spot, but that he just wanted to give the ball a good ride. Soon, however, the
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-savvy Ruth was going along with the story that he had called his shot, and his subsequent versions over the years became more dramatic. "In the years to come, Ruth publicly claimed that he did, indeed, point to where he planned to send the pitch."
[Chris Harry, Sentinel Staff Writer. "ON HIS HONOR; Justice John Paul Stevens witnessed Babe Ruth's historic 'called' shot." ''Orlando Sentinel, The (FL)'' September 30, 2007: ''NewsBank''. Web. February 17, 2016.] For one
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, Ruth voiced over the called shot scene with the remarks, "Well, I looked out at center field and I pointed. I said, 'I'm gonna hit the next pitched ball right past the flagpole!' Well, the good Lord must have been with me." In his 1948 autobiography, Ruth provided another enhanced version by stating that he had told his wife "I'll belt one where it hurts them the most" and that the idea of calling his own shot then came to him.
Ruth then recounts the at-bat:
Ruth explained that he was upset about the Cubs' insults during the series, and that he was especially upset that Chicago fans had spat upon his wife Claire. Ruth not only said that he had deliberately pointed to center with two strikes, he said that he had pointed to center even before Root's first pitch.
Others helped perpetuate the story over the years. Tom Meany, who worked for Joe Williams at the time of the called shot, later wrote a popular but often embellished 1947
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of Ruth. In the book, Meany wrote, "He pointed to center field. Some say it was merely as a gesture towards Root, others that he was just letting the
Cubs bench know that he still had one big one left. Ruth himself has changed his version a couple of times... Whatever the intent of the gesture, the result was, as they say in
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, slightly colossal."
Despite writing the article that may have begun the legend, over the ensuing years, Williams came to doubt the veracity of Ruth's called shot. Similarly, Ruth biographer
Robert Creamer believed that while, in a way, Ruth had called his shot with his words and gestures to the Cubs, he didn't believe that Ruth specifically pointed to center field.
Nonetheless, the called shot further became etched as truth into the minds of thousands of people after the 1948 film ''
The Babe Ruth Story'', which starred
William Bendix as Ruth. The film took its material from Ruth's
autobiography
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, and hence did not question the veracity of the called shot. Two separate biographical films made in the 1990s also repeated this gesture in an unambiguous way, coupled with Ruth hitting the ball over the famous ivy-covered wall, which did not actually exist at Wrigley Field until five years later.
Eyewitness accounts
Eyewitness accounts were equally inconclusive and widely varied, with some of the opinions possibly skewed by partisanship:
* "Don't let anybody tell you differently. Babe definitely pointed." — Cubs public-address announcer
Pat Pieper (As public-address announcer Pieper sat next to the wall separating the field from the stands, between home plate and third base. In 1966 he spoke with the ''
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'' "In the Wake of the News" sports columnist David Condon: "Pat remembers sitting on the third base side and hearing
ubs' pitcher Guy Bush chide Ruth, who had taken two strikes. According to Pat, Ruth told Bush: 'That's strike two, all right. But watch this.' 'Then Ruth pointed to center field, and hit his homer,' Pat continued. 'You bet your life Babe Ruth called it.'")
* "My dad took me to see the World Series, and we were sitting behind third base, not too far back.... Ruth did point to the center-field scoreboard. And he did hit the ball out of the park after he pointed with his bat. So it really happened," stated
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,
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.
* "What do you think of the nerve of that big monkey. Imagine the guy calling his shot and getting away with it." – Lou Gehrig
* The Commissioner of Baseball,
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, attended the game with his young nephew, and both had a clear view of the action at home plate. Landis himself never commented on whether he believed Ruth called the shot, but his nephew believes that Ruth did not call it.
*
Shirley Povich, ''
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'' columnist, interviewed Hall-of-Fame catcher
Bill Dickey. "Ruth was just mad about that quick pitch, Dickey explained. He was pointing at Root, not at the centerfield stands. He called him a couple of names and said, "Don't do that to me anymore, you blankety-blank."
*Ray Kelly, Ruth's guest for the game, said, "He absolutely did it ... I was right there. Never in doubt."
*
Erle V. Painter, the Yankees athletic trainer at the time, shared his recollection of the shot with the
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. He stated, "Ruth made a three-quarter turn to the stands and held up one finger. It was plain he was signifying one strike didn't mean he was out.
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put over another strike and the Babe repeated the pantomime, holding up two fingers this time. Then, before taking his stance, he swept his left arm full length and pointed to the centerfield fence."
The called shot particularly irked Root. He had a fine career, winning over 200 games, but he would be forever remembered as the pitcher who gave up the "called shot", much to his annoyance. When he was asked to play himself in the 1948 film ''
The Babe Ruth Story'', Root turned it down when he learned that Ruth's pointing to
center field would be in the film. Said Root, "Ruth did not point at the fence before he swung. If he had made a gesture like that, well, anybody who knows me knows that Ruth would have ended up on his ass
ia a brushback pitch">brushback_pitch.html" ;"title="ia a brushback pitch">ia a brushback pitch The legend didn't get started until later." Root's teammate, catcher Gabby Hartnett, also denied that Ruth called the shot. On the other hand, according to baseball historian and author Michael Bryson, it is noted that at that point in the game, Ruth pointed toward the outfield to draw attention to a loose board that was swinging free. Some people may have misinterpreted this as a "called shot", but Cubs personnel knew exactly what he was pointing to, and hammered the board back into place.
In 1942, during the making of ''
The Pride of the Yankees'',
Babe Herman (who was at that time a teammate of Ruth with the minor league
Hollywood Stars) was on the movie set as a double for both Ruth (who played himself in most scenes) and Gary Cooper (who played
Lou Gehrig
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). Herman re-introduced Root and Ruth on set and the following exchange (later recounted by Herman to baseball historian
Donald Honig) took place:
* Root: "You never pointed out to center field before you hit that ball off me, did you?"
* Ruth: "I know I didn't, but it made a hell of a story, didn't it?"
Root went to his grave vehemently denying that Ruth ever pointed to center field.
Rediscovered 16-mm films
In the 1970s, a
16-mm home movie of the called shot surfaced, and some believed that it might put an end to the decades-old controversy. The film was shot by an amateur
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named Matt Miller Kandle, Sr. Only family and friends had seen the film until the late 1980s. Two frames from the film were published in the 1988 book ''Babe Ruth: A Life in Pictures'' by Lawrence S. Ritter and Mark Rucker on p. 206. The film was broadcast on a February 1994
Fox television program called ''
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[Front Page TV Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTA-DRunNNk (Ruth's hand gestures are shown at 09:16)] Later in 1994, still images from the film appeared in filmmaker
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''.
The film was shot from the grandstands behind home plate, off to the third base side. While Ruth's gesture is clearly visible, the direction in which he is pointing is uncertain. Some contend that Ruth's extended arm is pointing more to the left-field direction, toward the Cubs bench, which would be consistent with his continued gesturing toward the bench while rounding the bases after the home run. On the episode of ''Front Page'', the film was shown to Yankee legends
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,
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Ron Guidry
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. In his observation of the film, Mantle believed that the most visible points from Ruth were in the direction of the Cubs dugout, but then noticed that Ruth did briefly point in the direction of Cubs pitcher Charlie Root or toward center field just prior to the pitch from Root, partially obscured by Hartnett as he was throwing the ball back to Root.
In 1999, another 16-mm film of the called shot was made public. This film was shot by inventor
Harold Warp during the only Major League Baseball game that he ever attended. The rights to his footage were sold to
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, which aired it as part of the network's ''
SportsCentury'' program in 2000. Warp's film has not been as widely seen by the public as Kandle's film, but many of those who have seen it feel that it shows that Ruth did not call his shot. The film shows the action much more clearly than does the Kandle film, showing Ruth visibly shouting something either at Root or at the Cubs dugout while pointing.
The authors of the book ''Yankees Century'' believe that the Warp film proves conclusively that the home run was not a "called shot." However,
Leigh Montville's 2006 book ''The Big Bam'' asserts that neither film answers the question definitively.
Legacy and cultural references
In the 1984 film ''
The Natural'', The Whammer, played by
Joe Don Baker and modeled after Babe Ruth, makes a gesture with his bat that closely mimics the Ruth gesture. He then swings and strikes out. Major league slugger
Jim Thome used a similar bat-pointing gesture as part of his normal preparation for an at-bat.
The climax of the 1989 film ''
Major League'' depicts
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catcher Jake Taylor pointing toward the outfield, making a reference to Ruth's called shot. However, Taylor bunts the next pitch in a
squeeze play that scores the winning run from second base.
In 2005, the jersey that Ruth was wearing during the game was sold for at auction, and was on loan to the
New York Yankees Museum. On August 25, 2024, the jersey was sold via
Heritage Auctions for a record $24.12 million, making it the most expensive sports collectible in history, eclipsing the $12.6 million paid for a 1952
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in 2022.
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'' has a taunt kill that references Ruth's called shot.
References
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