This is a photo of the moment when Babe Ruth allegedly “called his shot” and then hit a home run.
His longtime friend Ford Frick once tried to get the truth from Ruth. Frick asked him, “Did you really point to the bleachers?” The coy Ruth would answer back, “It’s in the papers, isn’t it?”
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I read somewhere that Ruth was heard saying that as he pointed he said to the pitcher he was going to hit the ball “down your GD throat.” I prefer to believe that he called the his shot.
Do you know what happened right after that pitch?
He hit a home run?
Ruth crossed the plate laughing after calling his shot and said to Lou Gehrig, “Why don’t you hit one?” Lou Gehrig then hit a homer as well.
he didnt call the shot, he lied to everyone for the rest of his life
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