Ruth knocked out (LOC)

Ruth knocked out

[19]24 July 6.

1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller

Notes:
 Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve.
Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
Published in: Baseball Americana : treasures from the Library of Congress / Harry Katz, et al. New York : Smithsonian Books, 2009.
This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)

For additional information about this collection, see hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npcc

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.11744

Call Number: LC-F8- 31382

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    yvrk, mosley.brian, Louie, Lou, pete4ducks, and 101 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. budderflyman (40 months ago | reply)

    Ruth was running after a foul ball and hit the wall. He was knocked out for about five minutes.

  3. Pineapple Tie (40 months ago | reply)

    5 minutes?!?! That's a REALLY long time to be out.

  4. Louie, Lou (40 months ago | reply)

    Whoa that must have been a scary moment for Yankees managment!

  5. roger4336 (40 months ago | reply)

    Most of the spectators wearing neckties and straw hats.

  6. Robinsegg (40 months ago | reply)

    ....and a large number of spectators are African-American.

  7. ne_atl (40 months ago | reply)

    I love how they dressed in that era. Suits and button-ups to a baseball game...... in the summer. Love it

  8. iwillglo (40 months ago | reply)

    wow!

  9. ZG Images ~ 2013 (40 months ago | reply)

    ouch ! great photo - thanks for sharing these - I love baseball
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    http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/10/01/play-bal l/ (?)

  10. Brandon Feagan (40 months ago | reply)

    Ruth hit a HR in a NY win:
    www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1924/07061924.htm

  11. monstersweare (40 months ago | reply)

    Tough guy! Didn't even come out of the game.

  12. ruby_dust (40 months ago | reply)

    everybody in the crowd's rubbernecking too

  13. guano (40 months ago | reply)

    The Great Ruth was probably worn out from sampling the Washington DC area brothels :)

    The photo shows a Washington Senator player in a home uni.
    In 1924, the Yanks played 10 games at the Senators:

    April 19, 20, 21, and 22.

    May 28 (2 games)

    July 4, 5 (2 games), and 6.

    See the Yankees 1924 schedule here:
    www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.p hp?y=1924&am...

  14. gti_rich (40 months ago | reply)

    wow what a great picture...

  15. Jay Thompson (40 months ago | reply)

    Guy in the foreground is Lou Gehrig. Very cool.
    -jay

  16. monstersweare (40 months ago | reply)

    Think it might be the pre-Gehrig 1st baseman Wally Pipp...Gehrig was in the minors if the date on this picture is correct (7/6/24). Tough to say with his back turn and without numbers of course. Presume the Senator in the picture is their first base coach.

  17. jcassara73 (40 months ago | reply)

    The collision actually took place during the first game of a July 5, 1924 doubleheader with the Senators:
    www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1924/B07051WS1192 4.htm

    Per p. 23 of the July 6, 1924 New York Times:

    [It] happened in the fourth inning, when Babe made a valiant effort for a long foul from Joe Judge’s bat, which just sailed over the wall into the crowded seats. The Babe ran into the pavilion parapet with the full force of his body, and dropped unconscious to the grass. Uniformed policemen ran to his assistance and kept back the crowd that seemed disposed to leave the chairs and get a close-up of the injured warrior. Several photographers happened to be on the spot and snapped the Babe as Trainer Doc Woods ran up with the water bucket and the little black bag of first aid preparations.
    At first it was thought that Ruth had been knocked out by a blow from the concrete on his chin, but it was soon discovered that he had been knocked out by a jolt in the solar plexus. His left leg was also hurt at the hip.
    [Yankee manager Miller] Huggins wanted Ruth to quit, but he insisted upon staying in, and got a double in the sixth…

  18. thetallguy747 (39 months ago | reply)

    Visible just below the policeman's outstretched arm is Yankee center fielder Whitey Whitt, leaning against the outfield wall. Whitt was the Yankees' opening day CF that season but lost his job when talented Earle Combes was acquired after the season started. After a torrid .400 BA start, Combes broke his ankle in June and Whitt was reinstated as the CF'er for the rest of the season.

    Whitey Whitt's real name was Ladislaw Waldemar Wittkowski. Unlike most players of his day, Whitt was a college boy, having attended Bowdoin College. He was also no stranger to the perils of playing the outfield. Two seasons before the Babe's felling in Washington, Whitt himself was put down by a bottle thrown by a Browns' fan the day the Yankees clinched the 1922 pennant in St. Louis.

    After initially offering a one thousand dollar reward for the fingering of the perpetrator, American League president Ban Johnson abruptly changed course when St. Louis fans threatened a riot. Johnson announced that Whitt had stepped on the bottle while running in CF and that the bottle had flipped up, striking him in the head and knocking him out!

  19. budderflyman (39 months ago | reply)

    source?

  20. artolog (37 months ago | reply)

    Following up on robinsegg's comment about the African-American spectators, the right field pavilion at segregated Griffith Stadium in D.C. was the only place African-American fans could sit.

    More on this incident with Babe Ruth, including a short film, at
    www.nationalspride.com/columnists/post.cfm?bl og=mark&...

  21. Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com (35 months ago | reply)

    Ruth is the man...

    www.flickr.com/photos/kingkongphoto/349801154 2/

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