Holy hell, is THIS what passed for “””training””” back in the day? Louis Anderson would have hit 800 home runs. First things first, whomst is working out whomst?? It looks like the trainer is burning the bulk of the calories here. The narrator mentioned Ruth’s annual struggle with his waistline but what he failed to mention is that Ruth’s waistline is ahead in the all-time series 276-17-1.

“Almost 40 and kinda fat, Babe still has a lot of baseball in him…”

Is that what the trainer was trying to beat out of him? What’s the meaning of this? Imagine being another batter in that era, and seeing the silhouette of Kevin James step out of the dugout and hit a ball clear over the steel mill with pickle relish stains on his jersey. Or worse, being a pitcher and getting off from a 16-hour shift at the heavy box lifting to go get embarrassed by The Bambino. If you transported Mike Trout back to this era, he’d be drawn and quartered at ye olde town square. Ellington ” Stove Pipe” Waters was the first professional baseball player to suggest lifting weights and he was banned from the league. Just look at the Babe:

He’s exhausted like he just finished the Boston Marathon, when in fact he likely just finished the Bronx Marathon (aka four hot dogs, a shoebox full of potato cakes and two {2} pints of ale).

Pictured above is the Babe after being told the new trainer wanted to talk to the team about a new concept called “cardio”. There’s a decent chance this man wouldn’t make it out of AA ball in 2018. Sad.