1) Judge plays on Little League Fields, Yes Ruth had a short 285’ RF porch but Yankee Stadium in the 1920’s was still 460’ in gaps and 490’ straight away Center. Not to mention the other large stadiums around the league Ruth had to contend with.
Another fun fact.
There was no foul pole until 1932, so even on balls over the fence where it landed counted if it was foul or fair. So those hook shots that wrap around the Pesky Poles would have been called foul back in Ruth’s day.
It is guestimated Ruth would have had about 75-100 more career home runs if he had a fould pole like today.
Also there were no ground rule doubles either, a ball bouncing over the fence was also a homerun but fences were so high back in the day Ruth never hit a ground rule homerun, and Gehrig only hit one in his career.
Yep.
All true. But you have to factor in the strike zone problem Judge continues to have with the umps. He’d have more chances if he didn’t t have so many bogus called strikes.