[4k 60fps Colorized] April 27, 1947: Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium
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Upscaled and colorized with AI neural networks, this is the next of a series of restored historic baseball footage that will be restored for our channel. Subscribe to see more!
The backstory: Two days before Thanksgiving 1946, Babe Ruth went to New York’s French Hospital, complaining of headaches. Initially, doctors diagnosed a sinus condition but in January determined that he needed surgery and he underwent a “serious” procedure. News stories at the time were vague about the pain’s cause; the hospital said only, “One of the main arteries on the left side of the neck was ligated. Post-operative condition satisfactory.” The truth was that Ruth had cancer, a tumor on a carotid artery, and surgery was able to remove only part of it.
A number of Ruth’s supporters, including Chicago’s Emory Perry, called on Chandler and suggested that Opening Day in every ballpark be declared “Babe Ruth Day” on an annual basis, with proceeds going to a planned Babe Ruth Foundation.
Not long after Ruth’s discharge, Chandler announced that major-league baseball would honor him: “All Americans … have been concerned … over the illness of one of baseball’s most beloved figures. … In order that (everyone) might have an opportunity to unite in a … prayer for his early recovery, Sunday, April 27, has been designated as ‘Babe Ruth Day.’”
The plan was that the center of the day’s activities would be, fittingly, Yankee Stadium and that other clubs would hold “appropriate ceremonies.” Roughly two weeks after Chandler’s announcement, George M. Trautman, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, announced that every minor-league team with a game on April 27 would also celebrate Ruth. As it turned out, Japan also honored him that day, in ceremonies in Tokyo and Osaka.
That Sunday afternoon brought pleasant weather to New York, with temperatures in the mid-60s at the time of the ceremony. The park was full, as 58,339 fans turned out, by far the Yankees’ largest attendance in the young season. (While they drew larger crowds later that year, the total was roughly 20,000 higher than Opening Day’s 39,344, previously the team’s biggest 1947 crowd.) In every major-league ballpark hosting a game that day, the attendance was the high-water mark on the season to that point, save in Brooklyn.
Ruth was not there for the end: He had left after the seventh. He made one more visit to the Stadium, roughly 14 months later, when he came for a second ceremony, the retirement of his iconic number 3 jersey. He died on August 16, 1948.
From sabr.org/gamesproj/game/april...
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k
✔ Improved video sharpness
✔ Colorized*
*Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and does not represent real historical data. The AI still struggles with the separation between infield dirt and grass, etc.
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I was there!!!!! I was literally sitting 20 feet from George Steinbrenner!!!!! Unforgettable memory!!!!!
His throat got so much worse. We love you babe. You are the legend.
Hard to believe we lost both Ruth and Gehrig within 10 years of each other, and both were tragically cut short.....
@andrewsmith3257
Ай бұрын
Yeah but it feels like Ruth kinda got a full life in 53 years. Gehrig was tragic he didn't live a complete life
@FrankSinatrq
Ай бұрын
@@andrewsmith325753 is still young. The average life span in 1948 for a male was about 65 years.
@KevinMiller-xn5vu
Ай бұрын
@@FrankSinatrqConnie Mack died in 1956 at the age of 93.
@FrankSinatrq
Ай бұрын
@@KevinMiller-xn5vu “average”
He's only in his early 50s here, seems like early 80s.
@victormarrotti2575
3 ай бұрын
He is 52 in 1947
@rongendron8705
2 ай бұрын
I believe that he was only 48! Tragic!
@KevinMiller-xn5vu
2 ай бұрын
@@rongendron8705Ruth was 53 when he died in 1948. Lou Gehrig was only 37 when he died in 1941.
@Corwin1141
15 күн бұрын
The poor fella was dying. Damn cancer.😢
@TheBatugan77
7 күн бұрын
Cancer will do that.
The GOAT without a doubt. Players before him hit for a higher average, some since have hit more home runs, there were greater pitchers, but no-one did it the way the Babe did.
@LATitan
Ай бұрын
Babe Ruth is a legend but ohtani is all around better in a more skilled league.
@live42dayy25
Ай бұрын
@@LATitan exactly lol
Love this much better in color. Just brings life to it
I sure hope this colorization tech continues to improve over the coming years so these b/w films can be colorized without that weird purple effect.
@TheBreakBrothers
2 ай бұрын
It’s getting better. Consumer tools are a bit behind professional. That fringe usually happens when the video quality is poor and there is not good contrast or borders to color.
@JohnSmith-zw8vp
2 ай бұрын
@@TheBreakBrothers For example, you know how they did those Christmas episodes of Lucy and Andy in color? Why not someday be able to do them all like that? I'm especially curious to know what Dennis the Menace (early 60s sitcom) would look like in color.
@TheBreakBrothers
2 ай бұрын
Cartoons, drawings with hard borders are much easier to color accurately with AI. We are working on a Tu Cobb video that uses AI plus also a new technique we are testing using Photoshop to do an initial colorization on all frames before touching up. The tech is coming.
I'm so sad that he died
@loydkline
10 ай бұрын
❤️ babe Ruth
@qman66
Ай бұрын
I mean he was born in 1895 he would've been long gone by now
My uncle was at this
@live42dayy25
Ай бұрын
Yes I was nephew
@larryaldama1673
5 күн бұрын
⚾️👍🇺🇸🫡
Imagine all the folks that got to witness babe Ruth play or even just was at this event. They bragged about that to their kids, grandkids, nephews and nieces, uncles and aunts, siblings, classmates, coworkers, the cashier at the grocery store, and everybody else they ran into or interacted with on a daily basis. Is there anyone more famous than The Great Bambino? Nope.
He will live forever. When someone is real good in a profession, Many will say he's the babe ruth of car salesman ect. The best !
The Greatest
Babe sounded like emperor palpatine!
The Yankees really tore this building down… absolutely disgraceful.
He looked way sicker and closer to death here than he did during his last appearance at Yankee Stadium a year later. Maybe the uniform and cap hid it.
Amazing he was only 53
I still like the old B & W
@TheBreakBrothers
2 ай бұрын
Our demos show 1/3 of our audience is younger. We hope that by providing these colorized videos that they serve as a gateway to younger audiences to a generation of players that might not be discovered otherwise. The original b&w was great!
@qman66
Ай бұрын
No this is way better
🌹💋🌹Babe👑Ruth🌹💋🌹
They should normalize showing old film at regular speed jesus fuck
Babe looks like 500 years old.
@larryaldama1673
5 күн бұрын
🤣
Looked better in black and white.
@TheBreakBrothers
2 ай бұрын
No worries, we don’t harm the original footage! It’s still available to you to watch.
@susanb2015
2 ай бұрын
@@TheBreakBrothers I just wanted to see this clip. I thought the color looked strange. I do like some things in color like WW1 footage. This is okay. But don't colorize old movies!
Ruined by colorization
@TheBreakBrothers
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching. No worries, there’s still plenty of the original b&w versions, though not upscaled and 60fps likely.
The flicker rate anc.constantly changing colors of objecta in these new computercolorized version males me miss black and white. Technicolor colorization by hand are so much grander drom film. These are an attack on mind.
@TheBatugan77
4 ай бұрын
I said get lost.
A Babe in a 📦 box
The Traditional Catholic Church is so beautiful. Its hard to see her being attacked and infiltrated by evil currentlyn We must returm to Tradition.
@SquidGuy
6 күн бұрын
The architecture is beautiful, and that is all. Educated and sensible people are tired of the grifting, depravity and hypocrisy that goes on within.
@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078
2 күн бұрын
Seriously??🤦🏾♂️ They were “infiltrated by evil” by the time the final of the 12 apostles (John) died by the end of the first century. All things considered a legitimate case could be made that the Catholic Church is the most prolific and destructive terrorist organization in the world since the death of Christ. So to see you pining away for some nonexistent era of transcendence is laughable.