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To: driftless2

Thanks! I’ve been trying to find where I heard that.

By today’s standards, Babe wasn’t all that big and strong. It must’ve been the bat.


18 posted on 05/28/2015 1:32:03 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: Forgotten Amendments
He was big enough...6'2, 225-230. I was watching some baseball expert on the internet whose specialty was analyzing swings. Ruth came in at no. 1 in his estimation. Don't ask me how he made up his analysis.

Another little tidbit about Ruth. In 1920 Columbia University conducted some sort of test on the physical reaction capabilities of 500 male volunteers. All the males were in their physical primes, mostly in their twenties. Ruth was 25 at the time. Guess who came in no. 1 with the best reactions to a variety of tests?

41 posted on 05/28/2015 3:06:07 PM PDT by driftless2
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