Posted on 05/25/2023 7:19:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Barry Bonds approached his record-breaking home run, many in the audience were holding up signs featuring a giant asterisk.
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I was a Dodger fan going back to the days when Duke Snider, Larry Sherry and Wally Moon were household names in our neighborhood. But beginning with the introduction of playoffs, my enthusiasm started to cool, and the strike made it much cooler. Then 2002 All Star game ended in a tie, which isn't supposed to happen in baseball.
Interleague play, extending the season into November, replacing the organ with unlistenable disco "music" and now the Dodgers' embrace of sexual perversion and a troupe of Satanist "entertainers" has completely alienated me.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Ruth hit 29 in 1919, the existing record -- 27 -- had been set by Ned Williamson for the Chicago White Stockings 35 years earlier in 1884!
And the very next season, 1920, Ruth changed the game forever when he exactly doubled Williamson's record at 54.
Nobody, not Gretzky, not Jordan, not Jim Brown, not Tiger, not Ali, not Pele, nobody ever shook up his sport like the Babe.
Not in 1935 you didn’t.
Lousy cheat
Hank Aaron, 1974. Where did you get 1935?
The only player in MLB history killed by a pitched ball (Ray Chapman) happened in 1920. The spitball was only banned in 1921 and many pitchers were slow to give it up.
It was just a more hostile workplace in the Babe's day, and he was blazing an untrod trail.
"Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner received 215 votes apiece (95.13 percent), while Christy Mathewson got 205 votes (90.70 percent). Walter Johnson received 189 votes (83.62 percent) – 20 more than the 169 necessary to reach the 75-percent mark needed for induction."
Ruth was the best left-handed pitcher in the American League, during an era in which pitchers dominated.
When he switched to the outfield full time, he hit more home runs himself than most TEAMS.
Greatest baseball player who ever lived.
Imagine if Ohtani wins a Cy Young while getting over 100 RBIs.
i love the babe ruth museum... the list of each homerun showed that yes, whenever ruth batted, the fans expected a homerun, with him having many multiple homers per game...
and yes his bat was like a fence post that he could swing effectively.
😃😃
Yeah, the fact that people are comparing Ohtanhi to Ruth is a joke. Ruth lost 30 years Home Runs to long fences.
But Chicks Dig The Long Ball!
The only thing you can do is compare a player to his contemporaries. And clearly Ruth was the most dominant player of an era. Of course advances in technology, nutrition, training, etc. make today’s ballplayers much better than the players of a hundred years ago, in absolute terms, but greatness is something that is measured relatively.
Ruth would play in the Regular Season, then he would go out and Barnstirm against black players. They said he was the toughest they ever played against. His Carrer war is 183.5.
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