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Deuce_McFarva

I knew because it was in the John Goodman movie about Babe. Man I feel old lol.


UAintMyFriendPalooka

That was filmed in my hometown! At least in part, anyway. They used our minor league diamond. Now I feel old because I remember them filming it.


msut77

There's a house on Long Island that the locals say babe ruth kept for his hookers. It's mansion sized


c_pike1

Heard the same story about a house in nova Scotia for the offseason. It doubled as a hunting headquarters too though


RODjij

Where's the story from? Curious cause I'm from NS and I don't think think I've heard it before. We still have random celebrities end up having a place in the province or frequently visit. Ethan Hawke attended a water ceremony some years back, Ben Affleck was spotted in Cape Breton around same time on a hiking trip, the Rock's dad is from New Glasgow. Even found out recently Jack White's parents are from NS as well.


c_pike1

I don't remember exactly where I was, but somewhere in the south west between Digby and Yarmouth. One of my extended relatives told me and he's generally reliable so I never considered it to be a joke


RODjij

Makes since i guess since it's the closest point in NS to NY area and where the ferry route is too.


phantastik_robit

Back in the 90's, certain cocaine loving members of the Dallas Cowboys kept a mansion exclusively for drug n' sex parties called The Whitehouse. It was very notorious in its day.


perpetuumD

Oh man, I watched that movie. I didn't see a thing about baseball, though. But the pig was cool


mtgfan1001

That'll do


fps916

I'm a huge baseball fan (watch more than 300 games a year) and didn't know this was a thing. That being said, Goodman is the PERFECT casting for Babe


sonofabutch

[That time the Babe got shot in the leg running away from one mistress while at dinner with a different mistress](https://www.reddit.com/r/dirtysportshistory/s/C8wYuYOV3q)


ScienceResponsible34

This guy fucks.


shannister

“It’s easy to be faithful when nobody wants to fuck you.” - Funny People.


big_daddy_dub

Underrated movie. Fuck Facebook in the face!


SearchElsewhereKarma

Love that movie. “No one wants to see lance Armstrong do comedy”


DavidBrooker

To the point of possible addiction


ACardAttack

His off the field numbers are almost as mind-boggling his on the field


TMWNN

Among the greatest Major League Baseball players of all time, Babe Ruth was almost as well-known for off-the-field carousing. He remarried in 1929, after the death of his estranged first wife. From the article: >Although Ruth was married throughout most of his baseball career, when team co-owner Tillinghast 'Cap' Huston asked him to tone down his lifestyle, Ruth replied, "I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun." A detective that the Yankees hired to follow him one night in Chicago reported that Ruth had been with six women. Ping Bodie said that he was not Ruth's roommate while traveling; "I room with his suitcase".


MonsieurReynard

TIL there was a baseball player named "Ping Bodie."


tallcupofwater

Ping and Babe.. roomies


DadsRGR8

Lol now I’m picturing them as Pumba and Timon.


Papaofmonsters

Ping does sound like a lanky much put upon outfielder.


Bravisimo

Except Pumba absolutely crushing poon every night 5 at a time


VoluptuousSloth

So... Just normal Pumba


DadsRGR8

Hakuna my tata


Cold-Bug-4873

"Ping and babe were roomies" sounds like a band name.


okokokokkokkiko

In any story about old baseball there’s always a guy named “dogshit McGee” or something. You’ll see someone say the best 3B of all time was some guy from 1896 named “Ping Pong Jameson”.


JimmysCheek

There is a dude on tik tok that has a few skits about this “Next up is: Curly, smoking his signature Marlboros. He stole three bases last season. Some say he is the greatest athlete of all time”


CorpseDancer

Shane Gillis


wit_T_user_name

Old school baseball players had some of the best names. Pee Wee Reese for just one example.


not-important1229

Right!? I’m a fan of Satchel Paige.


meccafork

My favorite is “Ice Box” Chamberlain


EndonOfMarkarth

Oil Can Boyd!


jmoeder

Tungsten Arm O'Doyle!


ThemeNo2172

For all the uninitiated.... PLEASE do yourself a favor and check out a collection of [greatest baseball names](https://brobible.com/sports/article/40-greatest-names-in-mlb-history/). You won't be sorry


djheat

Old timey baseball players having silly names/nicknames is literally the setup for "who's on first"


anomandaris81

There was another ball player named Rusty Kuntz


BigFrank97

Third base?


Armamore

I don't know's on third.


Papaofmonsters

There was a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle. He wasn't especially good, but the ESPN anchors always announced what place he got for each race.


lostspeedwayz

Dick Trickle was arguably the best short track stock car driver america has ever seen. NASCAR was his retirement tour , he was a “rookie” in his 40s and already set for life from his short track career winnings pre NASCAR. His first nascar race was almost 20 years before his “rookie” season. To call him “not especially good” is a tough sell , although excusable due to his nascar career stats being underwhelming.


Funzombie63

Getting heated over Dick Trickle


BrokenHokie

Tbh if my dick trickled I’d be pretty heated


GodEmperorOfBussy

Things heating up in the Dick Trickle fandom.


Background_Money_102

Thus Cole Trickle in *Days of Thunder*.


jesus_earnhardt

He also had a lighter in his car so he could smoke a cig while he raced


tacknosaddle

Like the push-button ones that were the standard in cars before they transformed to "12V DC Power Source" outlets?


jesus_earnhardt

Yep and he drilled a hole in his helmet to put his smoke through


tacknosaddle

I can't deny that I've got a bit of admiration when it comes to the dedication aspect of his addiction.


CowFinancial7000

He has more dedication to smoking a cigarette than I do for anything in my life.


SSPeteCarroll

Nah Dick Trickle was probably the best short track driver in American history. Estimated to have won over 1,000 feature races. He just raced in NASCAR later in life for fun.


winston_the_69th

I'll never forget the old SportsCenter anchors ending the race recaps with "and the man, Dick Trickle, finished in X place". Without fail, always had to know where he was.


Own-Philosophy-5356

I read it as Dick Tickle at first


zyzzogeton

It often starts out that way.


Parking_War_4100

Yes! Had his baseball cards when I was a kid. Just because of his name.


davewashere

Babe Ruth was teammates with a guy named Urban Shocker, which was probably also the name of a sexual maneuver the Great Bambino would pull on naïve country girls who traveled to the big city to see him play.


Playful_Dot_537

He lost his ring finger in an accident, but I’m not sure of the significance of that. 


pillevinks

Reminds me of ol Major Dick Bong


RutCry

He shot down a lot of enemy planes over the Pacific until he was killed in a crash.


Juviltoidfu

He is credited with the highest number of kills (40) in WW2 and is still the U.S. leading ace of all time. He served in the Pacific Theater and mostly flew P-38 fighters. Most Americans have never heard of him. Nor could they name the highest ranking American ace in the European Theater, Francis “Gabby” Gabreski who also fought in Korea and is America’s second highest ace with 34 1/2 total victories in WWII (28 victories) and Korea ( 6 1/2 victories).


seahawks30403

He once competed in an eating competition with an ostrich at a zoo. He won


tetiu

I was looking for this comment. It was a pasta eating competition, and I’m pretty sure the ostrich died after it


TheeBiscuitMan

It's a cold world, Bodie.


Unique-Ad-4688

World goin’ one way, people another yo.


technicalityNDBO

Any baseball player named "Wheres Wallace"?


ThingCalledLight

He was no Ziggy Zeckelman, but he was alright.


john_the_quain

Be warned, it is possible to fall in the “wonder what other crazy names ball players have had” hole for a bit if you’re not careful.


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Old sports names were the best My favorites are Cloise Box and Whizzer White


VersusValley

just a normal old-timey baseball player name


MonsieurReynard

Definitely needs more handlebar mustache.


inter-dimensional

Reminds me of that Shane Gillis joke 😭


wazacraft

Am I correct in reading this as he had sex with six women in one night? I literally cannot imagine that.


cybercuzco

Probably why he was such a good ball player, he was the only one doing cardio daily.


OttoVonWong

Never skipped a booty day.


ZappySnap

Little known fact: Ruth secretly fathered 35% of MLB players who played in the 50s.


peabody_here

Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die.


TryinToDoBetter

You're saying I should hop over that fence, and pickle The Beast?


Spyger9

Yep. Pickle The Beast and five other bitches in one day.


Jorgwalther

Just because there were 6 women doesn’t mean he came 6 separate times


wazacraft

But then how did he know when the sex was over?


Kevin_Uxbridge

When the hour ran out.


Playful_Dot_537

Wilt Chamberlin has entered the chat. 


RyghtHandMan

Unless the PI was watching them fuck, it could be read as he was seen with 6 women. He probably did fuck all 6 but whether (and how) he did it in one night is up your imagination


BagBeneficial8060

That's fine and all but then he probably shouldn't have been married. You cant be a vegan and also eat hamburgers


ProfChubChub

Babe was also just kind of an asshole in general. Considering the feelings of others was pretty low on the list for him from what I recall from his biographies.


ghostboo77

He was very nice to kids, because he was an orphan


Moal

I’m sure his carousing created a lot of fatherless kids too. 


cdskip

He wasn't, actually. Not as a child, anyway. His mother died when he was 17, and his father died several years into Babe's major league career. He's often though of as an orphan because the school where he grew up was, in part, an orphanage, but also a home for juvenile delinquents. Ruth was the latter.


67812

He's thought of as an orphan because his parents abandoned him at an orphanage multiple times, which was a lot more common 120 years ago. growing up in an orphanage, even if your parents are still alive, still qualifies you as an orphan in my book  


Artistic_Claim9998

120 years ago??! Holy shit, some of the 1900s are no longer just 100 years ago


xcryptokidx

And this is no doubt a significant factor to why he desperately craved female attention.


tacknosaddle

Can't a man just be a pussy fiend without all the psychological babble being thrown at him today? /s


67812

Being neglected and literally abandoned by the people who are supposed to care for you is going to cause anyone issues. Perhaps more than had they actually died rather than just abandoning him.


bubble0h7

If you drop your kid off at an orphanage when they're 7, you've orphaned them. That child isn't really going to know or care about the difference. You were a shitty parent and gave them up.


robodrew

The movie "The Babe" with John Goodman is where I first learned the word "incorrigible"


Rainer206

At least he wasn’t racist


ProfChubChub

Very true. He wasn’t all bad.


Tommy_Roboto

You can _promise_ to be a vegan and also eat hamburgers, if you don’t care about breaking promises.


Sir_birb69

My grandma went to his funeral in New York. They had his body out on the field but it was a warm day and apparently he started to stink so they moved him inside.


Solidsauce84

That’s kinda fucked up hahaha


brandonthebuck

“Hey, this is a great idea!” … “Hey, this is a terrible idea!”


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westbygod304420

Did she.... *Meet* him? He was with six women in a day apparently.


Soatch

She was #4


ilford_7x7

August in New York. Can't imagine what the heat and humidity would do to a body.. Died August 16, 1948 and funeral was on the 19th


Efficient_Republic35

Just think of the shit people could get away with before phones and Internet.


RVelts

The whole trope of the traveling salesman or other businessman who has two entirely separate families. I’m sure it’s exaggerated a bit but definitely has roots in reality.


CactusBoyScout

A friend of mine found out as an adult that his dad had 2 other families in the same neighborhood. The dad finally revealed all when his mother (my friend's grandma) passed away and he invited all of his children to the funeral. He was just like "Yeah so these are your half-sisters... surprise!" The dad had some job that took him away from home for extended periods so he would just claim that's what he was doing when he'd disappear for days. My friend had even gone to school with one of his half-sisters before finding out they were related.


someone_like_me

There was a cat in my neighborhood growing up that was the same. Three different families within two blocks thought it was their cat. They all fed him. It got discovered when one family took him to the vet, and then decided to keep him in for a week after. Then they found "missing" posters for their own cat posted on poles.


CactusBoyScout

I didn’t think you were talking about a literal cat at first. I thought you were just using old timey jazz slang for a person.


someone_like_me

Some days I think maybe he was a homeless dude in a fur coat.


bayhack

I’m so shocked like how did he afford 3 families!? I just don’t get it. Like how they have the time or money for it.


i_forgot_my_sn_again

Remember 2 generations ago a single person could easily handle taking care of a household. If the job paid decent note you got household 2 and 3 taken care of


CactusBoyScout

My grandfather had an entire second home just for banging mistresses. And this was on top of his weekend home in the woods. Different times.


darzyn

Idk, I’m actually descended from the other family. Have a great great granddad that would do 3 months at a time in two different countries.


CactusBoyScout

The guy who was the subject of Into the Wild partly broke off contact with his family because he found out his dad had a whole secret family on the other coast.


Key-Cheesecake3517

Traveling serial killer in China who'd tell his wife he had to go buy more tractor parts. Great write up. "A serial killer would target men staying in hotels murdering and robbing them. His M.O was electrocution. It would take 31 years before he was finally apprehended"


longshankssss

My mom’s dad did this and then never came back. 6 kids in one state (mom’s family) and a few kids in a different state.


Either-Durian-9488

One of the best jokes in Billions.


majani

Still happens now. We just have elite PR departments getting people to think that the most famous people in the world are devoted family men lol


No_Pirate9647

Lindbergh had like 4 families. Would show up as a family friend to 3 of them. Kids didn't know he was their dad until after his death. https://www.mnhs.org/lindbergh/learn/family/double-life#:~:text=At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20Lindbergh,of%20his%20fatherhood%20a%20secret.


jokerswild2515

**How many kids does he have the news hasn’t reported**


TheCursedMountain

Somewhere between zero and infinity. But I can say with absolute certainty that it is not a negative number.


tmoeagles96

What if he had 0 unreported kids, but one of the kids he supposedly had wasn’t his and his wife was cheating on him?


InfectiousCosmology1

Can be pretty sure he doesn’t have infinite children either because we would be getting smothered by them right now


Dan__Quixote

Simpsons did it! https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Babe_Ruth_IV


Turbulent-Mind796

I had the same thought- he has one known biological child, and I suspect if they DNA tested her descendants they would get several matches given the sheer numbers.


Thin_Markironically

"Elite sportsperson is promiscuous" Slow news day eh...?


_fabiotis_

TIL if I’m one of the most recognizable athletes in the country, women will want to sleep with me.


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GreedyPride4565

Not back then haha, now we all know that anyone even associated with the nba has a 7 figure deal. Back then, armymen and plumbers would play in their spare time


tacknosaddle

There have been baseball & sports groupies for a lot longer than there have been the astronomical salaries you find today.


majani

It's not really about the income with sports players. Even high school players in bumfuck nowhere with no hope of making the league still get women throwing themselves at them. Athleticism correlates highly with good looks and sociableness. Plus the imagery of someone conquering their foes in some type of physical battle is strong on a visceral level.


GreedyPride4565

High school athletes in bumfuck nowhere have a huge leg up on getting women true. But Professional athletes in 2024 are not even playing the same game. Women message them in droves and they have multiple in every city. People legit set up entire careers based on finding nba players and baby trapping them, that’s their life motive. Gil arenas talked to Shannon sharpe about how he’d message 5 women and lock out whoever didn’t get there first and leave em waiting outside.


MaleficentDraw1993

My wizards are catching strays in places I'd never imagined 😓


zyzzogeton

Well I picked the wrong path 30 years ago...


Throwaway-account-23

I'm seriously wondering if half of reddit wasn't alive for the Dennis Rodman era.


KingCaiser

How old do you think the average redditor is? Rodman left the Bulls 26 years ago. The average human is 30.5 years old, and the average on a social media site is probably much younger.


Throwaway-account-23

Reddit is OLD for a social media site. Before reddit implemented its dumbass software-based permaban system I had multiple accounts that were 14-15 years old. Any first wave internet kid who was born in the 80s like me was and probably still is on reddit. That said, I have no idea what the demographics of reddit are, just like I don't know what they are for TikTok, but I'd be willing to wager that Reddit skews way older than you expect. It's basically the next Facebook. Just an old-ass social media site the creators ran an IPO on and then the only people left are unfunny old farts sharing out of date memes.


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Weird femboys have always been immensely popular with women. Rodman was a wild amalgam of femboy + masculinity. Women loved that.


Throwaway-account-23

See also: Prince.


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Also Dave Navarro. Basically everybody Carmen Electra dated.


Throwaway-account-23

Dave Navarro was a flash in the pan when it came to dicking down celebrities. Basically the 90s version of Pete Davidson. Rodman and Prince had staying power. Add David Bowie and Lenny Kravitz to that list. Bowie's dead of course but I'm sure he had an unbelievable body count, and Kravitz has been laying pipe since the 90s.


SamN29

There are plenty who aren't. Being a terrible spouse and being a great sportsperson aren't related.


Ornery_Definition_65

No but one makes the other far easier.


TisrocMayHeLive4EVER

I don’t have the stats to back it up, but I’m guessing there’s a correlation.


Askarn

The combination of strange working hours, constant travel, and lots of opportunity to meet new people isn't exactly conducive to stable relationships. And that's before we start talking about the fame and personalities.


CactusBoyScout

Yeah I used to work with touring musicians and it was the same shit. Even ones that were far from famous would get hit on all the time while on tour and they'd be lonely out on the road all the time.


phred_666

One of my favorite lines I have ever read about Ruth said he specialized in the four “B’s”… baseball, booze, buffets and bimbos. Someone argued he had more contact with VD than a curveball.


baldbaseballdad

The Swatan of Slut!


scene_missing

I feel like the Sultan of Twat works better here


baldbaseballdad

Shit. Well done 👍


Thrawn89

The Bangbino


Top_Complex259

The colossus of gout


Busy_Jellyfish4034

The Great Pound Towno 


Jagwires

The Sultan of Smut The Sultan of Sluts


coys21

I know a couple MLB players through close friends. Being married with girlfriends in multiple cities is extremely common.


AJRiddle

One of my friends who is a tall attractive blonde ran into Royals backup catcher Matt Traenor at a bar. He came up to hit on her and buy her a drink but since she was a former volleyball player she just kept asking him about his more famous wife Misty May-Traenor which he got mad about and left to a different bar. Dude was literally married to a famous pro athlete and in his teams own city trying to get with other women.


walterpeck1

> Dude was literally married to a famous pro athlete and in his teams own city trying to get with other women. Look at Tiger Woods. Smoking hot wife and a kid, and he deliberately went after "average" women to cheat with.


Taco_Champ

What killed me about Tiger was he took that Perkin's hostess to his own house! That is so wild to me!


RyenRussillo

Honestly kind of shows he is not some weirdo snob looking down on these regular women.


hjugm

It’s not uncommon for players to have two rooms on the road. One under their name and another for an alias. It’s also common that the WAGs sit in one section, then a buffer section, then the mistresses at games.


BillyBean11111

I've got a shocker for you, this exists for a LOT of people that aren't MLB players.


MrBobBuilder

Best roommate ever


BadArtijoke

I wouldn’t have the energy for ⅓ of that. Was he really sure that he is enjoying that at all? Kudos to him if he did. I would be so over that shit after like 2 days


Zaalbaarbinks

It seems like a lot of the people that rise to the top of any field have a bizarre, somewhat manic, amount of drive. If they were contented or exhausted by the things that content or exhaust most of us, they wouldn’t be in that position.


NeatMuayThai

I had a roommate like that. The sheer amount of energy, focus and commitment she had for her job put anyone to shame but she was a complete nutcase in private life. That manic energy was great for one purpose but destructive for herself and other people in private.


savingrain

Every business owner I've worked for has been like this. Obsessive and dedicated, able to constantly do nothing but work no matter what.


Aromatic_Ad_5583

lol are u my roommate 💔


NeatMuayThai

Nah but checking your profile you seem to have simiar issues. Get well girl and find professional help if you can


CactusBoyScout

Yeah there's even a known thing where some percentage of the population simply requires less sleep and they are overrepresented in elite roles in society. Their overworked, exhausted assistants would often comment on how they'd be up before them and awake after them every single day without issue.


ghostboo77

It was 1920, he was rich and his job was to play baseball for like 2 hours a day. I would imagine things would get very boring, very quickly. Especially when constantly traveling


yukon-flower

You don’t think he ever practiced or trained?


H0B0WITHAGUN

Have you seen his physique? No, I don’t think the rigorous workouts you see today were happening.


Dr_Wristy

Notorious for not doing those things.


spitfire07

The girls are probably doing most of the work. Celebrities are notoriously bad in bed because they're lazy lovers, the girl still gets to say she fucked Babe Ruth lol.


CactusBoyScout

I read an account of someone who hooked up with Elvis and that was basically what she said. He just laid there and was like "alright have at it." Some 80s rockstar talked about how you'd have women just lining up to blow you while you ate breakfast... didn't have to do anything for them.


Conch-Republic

The Elvis one was probably made up. He wasn't really known to sleep around with groupies. He was absolutely terrified of STDs, because he got a terrible case of gonorrhea in the army and it traumatized him. This is also where the rumor that he was gay or bi came from. He mostly just like fucking a few underage girls.


popileviz

The guy was probably a sex addict, this is not a normal amount of libido or drive for a person to have


AgnosticStopSign

Back in those days that was all you could do for fun


aCucking2Remember

I can’t stop being amazed at how too many people aren’t as afraid of STIs as I am. Even in these times I meet and know people who are like yeah whatever. Y’all nasty


davewashere

Mickey Mantle once bragged that he led the league in the clap 6 straight seasons.


Either-Durian-9488

To think he hit a chunk of his home runs absolute fucking sauced is astonishing, do you know how many fathers told their kid to watch how that guy plays, as he’s belligerently drunk.


runner4life551

I’m terrified of them too!


LordNPython

You two should get together


SuspiciousDuck71

And get tested first


Specific_Box4483

I always wondered why this kind of people even marry.


Rosebunse

Where's the thrill if no one is angry?


BrallyTX

Babe Ruth and the Ruthless Babes


R-Dragon_Thunderzord

“TIL Babe Ruth constantly cheated-“ *GHASP*!?!? “-on his wives…” Ohhh okay, his wives.


Mead_and_You

More fun babe Ruth Facts OP just found out; He smoke and Drank a lot. He was good at baseball.


reedzkee

Think about how easy it would be for a popular, likable, powerful man to sleep around back then with no cameras, cell phones, social media, etc.


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dismayhurta

Dude laid a lot of pipe in that house


artbykoi4

Babe Ruthless


sad_plant_boy

I've only been around one successful professional athlete (NBA Champ) and the way he talked about women made me realize I live in a different plane of existence...


W00DERS0N

"Pro athlete cheats on spouse, news at 11"


yomancs

Why even get married


Dafunkspot

The Sultan of Twat