Babe Ruth Was Right About Lou Gehrig But Nobody Listened

This documentary explores the most prophetic partnership in baseball history, and the haunting words Babe Ruth spoke about Lou Gehrig that proved true in ways neither man could have imagined. In June of 1923, a 20-year-old Columbia University freshman walked into the Yankees clubhouse for the first time, and Babe Ruth looked at him and saw something almost no one else in baseball saw. He saw the next him. Discover the secret Ruth shared with only one player in his entire career, revealed in his own words to Hank Greenberg in a February 1947 hospital interview. Ruth handed Greenberg a bat, showed him the grip, and said the only fellow he had ever told the secret to was Lou Gehrig, when poor Lou first came up to the Yankees. Learn how Ruth took the quiet kid from Manhattan under his wing and taught him the grip that would build 493 home runs, a Triple Crown, and six World Series championships. This documentary chronicles the partnership that created Murderers' Row, as Ruth and Gehrig combined for 107 home runs and 339 runs batted in during the legendary 1927 season. The film examines how they chased each other for Ruth's home run record through July and August, never separated by more than two home runs, until Ruth pulled away to finish with 60 while Gehrig ended with 47. Learn how the partnership fell apart over a comment about a mother, as Claire Ruth said something dismissive about Lou Gehrig's beloved mother Christina that silenced the two most famous teammates in baseball for five years. The documentary explores the depths of this strange feud through Ruth's final Yankees season and his departure to the Boston Braves. This film chronicles the January 1937 warning that proved devastatingly accurate, when Ruth told the Associated Press that Gehrig was making one of the worst mistakes a ballplayer can make by trying to keep up the iron man streak. Ruth said the next two years would tell Gehrig's fate. He said when his legs go, they'll go in a hurry. Twenty-eight months later, on May 2, 1939, Lou Gehrig took himself out of the lineup because his legs would no longer respond. Relive Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day on July 4, 1939, when 61,808 fans crammed into Yankee Stadium and Babe Ruth arrived to stand beside the dying man he had not spoken to in five years. The documentary examines the 277-word speech Gehrig delivered without notes, calling himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth, and the embrace at home plate when Ruth threw his enormous arms around his former protégé while the band played "I Love You Truly." Discover what Ruth whispered in Gehrig's ear during that embrace, words that have never been published but made the dying man crack a small smile for the first time all day. Learn about the photograph that ran on every major American newspaper the following morning, the image that hangs in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. From the Columbia batting practice session of 1923 to the numbers three and four retired side by side in Monument Park, from the grip that built Murderers' Row to the warning that came true within twenty-four months, discover why Babe Ruth was right about Lou Gehrig. This is the story of two men who built the greatest team in baseball history together, who fought for five years over a comment about a mother, who reconciled at home plate on Independence Day, and who are buried eight miles apart in New York with their numbers hanging side by side in the order they batted. The only player Ruth ever shared the secret with was the only one who needed to hear it.