Goofs for
The Babe (1992) More at IMDb Pro »

• Crew or equipment visible: Production assistant visible wearing basketball shoes and carrying walkie-talkie in the walkways under the baseball stadium.
  
  
• Continuity: The foam in the beer bottle on Babe Ruth's table disappears and reappears.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Babe Ruth develops a camaraderie with "Jumpin Joe" Dugan while on the Boston Red Sox in the movie. But they were never teammates in Boston - Dugan didn't play for the Red Sox until 1921, when Ruth was already with the Yankees.
  
  

• Factual errors: Contrary to popular belief, Babe Ruth did not hit three home runs in his last game in 1935. While the three-homer game against the Pittsburgh Pirates did occur, Ruth actually retired in between games of a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies a few days later. Babe grounded out in his final at-bat.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the game in which Babe promised the sick child he would hit two home runs, the Yankees were batting in the top of the ninth. But the game was played at Yankee stadium and as home team they should have been batting second.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When young Babe is hitting against Brother Mathias, one of his shots is clearly hit down toward the ground, yet young Babe looks up as if he hit it some distance.
  
  
• Factual errors: Babe Ruth did not homer in his first at bat in the majors. He was primarily a pitcher early in his career and rarely batted. His first big league home run didn't come until his second season.
  
  
• Factual errors: Babe Ruth and his first wife, Helen, never divorced because they were both Roman Catholics. They were separated when Babe played for the Yankees as he lived in New York and Helen lived in rural Massachusetts. Babe married Clare Hodgson just a few months after Helen died in a house fire.
  
  
• Continuity: In the hospital scene, the doctor has a clipboard in his hand, then there is no clipboard, and then he has it again.
  
  
• Factual errors: The film portrays Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as being enemies from the start. That is, in fact, not the case. When Gehrig first joined the Yankees, he and Ruth got along famously. They would often go on fishing trips and barnstorming tours together in the off season. The Ruth-Gehrig Feud did not start until after Gehrig had married Eleanor Twitchell in 1933.
  
  
• Factual errors: The movie depicts Babe Ruth saying that he had a better year than the president in 1922. He actually made that quote in 1930, as he was talking about Herbert Hoover.
  
  
• Factual errors: Two of the many goofs in the film are the fact that Babe Ruth never hit an infield Homerun as depicted. While he did promise a sick Johnny Sylvester that he would hit a homerun for him he did not meet him in the hospital and he only promised him one homerun, not two as the film depicts.
  
  

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