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To: EveningStar

If anyone wants to compare home runs, they should only look at HRs in excess of 400 feet. Babe Ruth, playing in an era of dead baseballs, colossal ballfields, and shorter playing seasons, still managed to blast 60 dingers. If he played in today’s little-league parks, he would have easily stroked over 100 HRs that season. And probably 1,200+ for his career.


12 posted on 08/18/2017 1:03:23 PM PDT by 10mm
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To: 10mm
The author claims that in modern ballparks Ruth would have hit 102 homeruns in 1921.

tps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Babe_Ruth_Hit_104_Home_Runs

15 posted on 08/18/2017 2:05:35 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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