When one of the boys in a sandlot game of baseball strikes out, Babe Ruth gives him a batting lesson.
It's one of five short instructional films that Ruth made in the year 1932 for Bryan Foy, playing off of Ruth's enormous popularity and love for boys. This sort of short subject was popular in the era. Bobby Jones made two series for Warner Brothers on how to golf, and other sports figures did much the same. They were popular, instructional, put some money in the pockets of the players, and made exhibitors happy.
Ruth was past his prime by this point, but he never really looked like the modern idea of a sports figure; Ty Cobb, when a writer insisted he say something nice about Ruth, admitted "he runs pretty good for a fat man."
It's one of five short instructional films that Ruth made in the year 1932 for Bryan Foy, playing off of Ruth's enormous popularity and love for boys. This sort of short subject was popular in the era. Bobby Jones made two series for Warner Brothers on how to golf, and other sports figures did much the same. They were popular, instructional, put some money in the pockets of the players, and made exhibitors happy.
Ruth was past his prime by this point, but he never really looked like the modern idea of a sports figure; Ty Cobb, when a writer insisted he say something nice about Ruth, admitted "he runs pretty good for a fat man."