Posted on 01/22/2021 8:06:06 AM PST by JonPreston
In total runs - I still say at the same point in games, Ruth had more; how many runs did Aaron have at the 152nd. game point?
Good points. There will always be these debates about who is the greatest, who is better than whom, etc. based on whatever criteria are being used.
I was just talking the other day to someone about Sandy Koufax. Many think Koufax in his prime was among the all time greats. But he only had 165 career wins, which is way way down the list of all time pitchers. But we know he retired at age 30, so some of his all time stats aren’t that outstanding.
Ted Williams had 521 home runs, but lost about four full seasons in his prime to military service. Some think he would have passed Babe Ruth’s 714 homers, if he had been able to play in those years.
These discussions are interesting, and depending what factors are considered, people can make the case for certain players being better than others.
Babe Ruth transcended the game of baseball..the way it was played...how pitchers pitched...strategy..everything...all these other guys just followed....
I think you mean 154, not 152. Not nearly as many opportunities as you might think. Hank Aaron only played 154+ games in six seasons for a grand total of 21 games. I don't know how many homeruns Aaron hit in those games but I doubt it was 41 homeruns (the difference between Aaron's career total and Ruth's).
RIP.
In addition, Babe Ruth was an outstanding pitcher probably on his way to the Hall of Fame career before he switched to an everyday player. He was also credited with saving baseball from the Black Sox Scandal. Combining all those reasons besides his eye-popping hitting statistics, it is an absolute no-brainer that Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all-time. Those intangible factors will likely prevent him from ever being knocked from that perch.
It's possible. He missed all or major parts of his seasons for age 24, 25, and 26 for WWII and for age 33 and 34 for the Korean War. He still would have had to average over 38 homeruns in those years to catch Ruth. In his other seasons, he hit 38 homeruns twice and 43 once.
I suspect that he would have been close to 700 homeruns at the end of 1960 (when he retired) if he had played those seasons. If Williams was that close, I suspect that he would have come back for the 1961 season (which was a big homerun year featuring the Mantle-Maris pursuit of the single-season homerun record) and passed Ruth's 714.
Nicely said.
The vaccine killed him 2 weeks after he took it.
Step to the plate America and take the democrat party vaccine.
Kinda curious, for a period Hank Aaron was the first name of the entire list of baseball players of all time AND #1 on the home run list.
Question.... Had Hank taken the second round of the vaccine???
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