Great players all the way up to the mid 80s. When they went on strike, I lost interest in the game.
Aint a thing lawyers touch that they dont eff up.
Every other hitter in the majors is measured by the standard that Ruth set 100 years ago.
He very well could have been a Hall of Famer pitcher if he continued pitching.
Hank Aaron received a fair amount of hate mail while he was chasing Babe Ruth’s record. But Ruth’s widow was very supportive: “The Babe loved baseball so very much; I know he was pulling for Hank Aaron to break his record.”
Classy lady there.
Greatest of All Time... Period. No one else comes close, and unlike other sports that make claims of such things, the Babe’s stats back it up.
When compared to other players of his era, no one was even close..
Sadly the Yankees today are a far cry from that Era.... but then again, so is baseball in general.
single handedly changed the way the game was played...
For many years, baseball was a game that offered a relatively honest comparison between the different eras, as the rules of the game were mostly unchanged from the 20’s through the 70’s. But with the addition of the Designated Hitter, the game slowly changed. And while it wasn’t a rule change, the emergence of the closer as a specialist brought another subtle change. And the changes just kept coming. PED’s, inter-league play, ghost runners in extra innings, pitch clocks, and larger bases have now clearly obliterated any sort of valid comparison of players from different eras. And so it is, Babe Ruth remains the best there ever was.
Most career walks, most HR in a season, most HR in a career...
Barry Bonds
Did Ruth ever skipper a major league team after retiring from playing?
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.
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."
Player OPS
Babe Ruth 1.164
Barry Bonds 1.128
Hank Aaron .928
Babe Ruth power came from eating hot dogs and drinking whiskey.
He was a great pitcher as well.
Hank Aaron was a great ballplayer who hit 755 home runs.
Barry Bonds hit 762 and used steroids so should not count.
Anybody who can eat hot dogs and smoke cigars in the dugout in between smacking home run after home run on the field has my respect.