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The Babe (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• 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 and "Jumpin Joe" Dugan are shown as teammates while on the Boston Red Sox in the movie. But 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.
  
  
• Factual errors: Babe and Claire met after he was sold to the Yankees, not before. In fact, they were introduced by James Barton before a Yankees-Washington Senators game.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Babe's fingers on the champagne glass during the Frazee-hosted party.
  
  
• Factual errors: Jumpin' Joe Dugan says he got his nickname by "jumping" to whichever team will pay him the most. He actually earned the moniker by teammates due to his habit of taking unauthorized leaves from his team.
  
  
• Factual errors: Babe is shown pitching over-head. Archive footage shows that the real Babe pitched sidearm.
  
  
• Factual errors: The film continues the myth that Babe was sold to the Yankees because Red Sox owner Harry Frazee's latest Broadway offering had flopped. In fact, the sale came about due to the fact that Frazee hadn't been hand-picked by American League president Ban Johnson to own a team, hence, Frazee was unwilling to do Johnson's bidding. When Carl Mays jumped the Red Sox, Frazee sold him to the Yankees, ignoring Johnson's order to suspend Mays. Meanwhile, Ruth was out of control, repeatedly breaking curfew, and jumping the team several times. The final straw came when Ruth was a no-show for the final game of the 1919 season, then held out for $20,000, despite the fact that Frazee had given Ruth bonuses. With the White Sox' reputation in tatters following the Black Sox Scandal, and Johnson pressuring the Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Tigers, the Philadelphia Athletics, the St. Louis Browns, and the Washington Senators not to deal with Frazee, Frazee had little choice but to deal with the Yankees.
  
  

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