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beantowndog: He could run okay for a fat man.

Yeah, but, for everyone who just brings up "he was just a fat HR hitter", also forgets these career stats for Ruth:

Pitching: 94-48 , 2.28 ERA

And most of that was over only a 4 year span. He could have probably been a HOF pitcher too, if he'd wanted to go down that road.

But, of course, this guy would tell you it was because of the batters he went against: Link

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dletter: beantowndog: He could run okay for a fat man.

Yeah, but, for everyone who just brings up "he was just a fat HR hitter", also forgets these career stats for Ruth:

Pitching: 94-48 , 2.28 ERA

And most of that was over only a 4 year span. He could have probably been a HOF pitcher too, if he'd wanted to go down that road.

But, of course, this guy would tell you it was because of the batters he went against: Link

The Babe's favorite record was his World Series pitching streak of 29 2/3 straight scoreless innings

dletter: beantowndog: He could run okay for a fat man.

Yeah, but, for everyone who just brings up "he was just a fat HR hitter", also forgets these career stats for Ruth:

Pitching: 94-48 , 2.28 ERA

And most of that was over only a 4 year span. He could have probably been a HOF pitcher too, if he'd wanted to go down that road.

But, of course, this guy would tell you it was because of the batters he went against: Link

I know the movie was terrible and nobody saw it, but that was a quote from Cobb.

beantowndog: I know the movie was terrible and nobody saw it, but that was a quote from Cobb.

Turns out they knew each other well too Link:

Claire Hodgson, a Ziegfeld girl, was sleeping with both Ty and Babe Ruth at roughly the same period. Years later Claire said, "Ty was the greatest, but Babe was first in my heart." At the same time Babe was seeing Claire, he was married to Helen. Later on Babe cheated on Claire.

FOR-EV-ER

FOR-EV-ER

FOR-EV-ERRRRRRRRRRRRR

You're killing me smalls!

On July 11, 1914...
This article was greenlighted a day late.

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I am familiar with this movie.

macdaddy357: On July 11, 1914...
This article was greenlighted a day late.

I would say one year and 364 days early.

Super Chronic: macdaddy357: On July 11, 1914...
This article was greenlighted a day late.

I would say one year and 364 days early.

Yeah, came here to say exactly that. 98 years? Meh, re-post this anniversary in 2 years.

Babe Ruth was nothing but a fat old man with little girl legs.

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beantowndog: I know the movie was terrible and nobody saw it, but that was a quote from Cobb.

I actually quoted 'Cobb' yesterday. The answer to why Cobb would only hit .290

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You mean the guy who holds te single season homerun rec

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Pretty good golfer, too

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Ruth hit 54 home runs in his first season with the Yankees, out-homering all but one other team.

Most dominate home run hitter of all time.

OF ALL TIME.

Babe Ruth hit 29 home runs in his last year in Fenway. 54 the year he moved to New York.

If that's not an enormous park effect I don't know what is.

/Though it goes both ways - sure, the Polo Grounds was easy to homer in, but Fenway was a pitchers' park at the time. If the Sox had held onto Ruth he would've only been a little over half the power hitter he became.
//Still one of the best pitchers in Red Sox history.

Broktun: Ruth hit 54 home runs in his first season with the Yankees, out-homering all but one other team.

Most dominate home run hitter of all time.

OF ALL TIME.

Indeed - without question. No one was so far ahead of his contemporaries.

/true, if they had let the brothers play, folks like Josh Gibson would have given the Babe a run for his money, but I doubt anyone could have equaled Ruth
//Key stat: .690 lifetime slugging percentage --- Not one league leader has reached Ruth career slugging percentage since a juiced Barry Bonds in 2004

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For-ev-VER

Epic thread... Thanks Farkers... I will remember this forever, forevvvver, fooooorrrr eeeevvvveeerrr

AliceBToklasLives: Broktun: Ruth hit 54 home runs in his first season with the Yankees, out-homering all but one other team.

Most dominate home run hitter of all time.

OF ALL TIME.

Indeed - without question. No one was so far ahead of his contemporaries.

/true, if they had let the brothers play, folks like Josh Gibson would have given the Babe a run for his money, but I doubt anyone could have equaled Ruth
//Key stat: .690 lifetime slugging percentage --- Not one league leader has reached Ruth career slugging percentage since a juiced Barry Bonds in 2004

Ruth had an ERA of 1.75 in 1916 \. Lifetime 94W 46L 2.28ERA 107CG
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/playe rs/player.php?p=ruthba01

That's pretty damn good for 10 seasons of pitching.

It will be a long time before someone matches or surpasses what Ruth did on both sides of the ball.

I should correct myself.
6 seasons of pitching with a few games here or there afterwards.

beantowndog: He could run okay for a fat man.

You can find pictures of him when he was with the Sawks, and he wasn't fat then. That came after getting traded to the Yankees.

dletter: beantowndog: He could run okay for a fat man.

Yeah, but, for everyone who just brings up "he was just a fat HR hitter", also forgets these career stats for Ruth:

Pitching: 94-48 , 2.28 ERA

And most of that was over only a 4 year span. He could have probably been a HOF pitcher too, if he'd wanted to go down that road.

But, of course, this guy would tell you it was because of the batters he went against: Link

He's like the Joad Cressbeckler of a decade ago!

beantowndog: He could run okay for a fat man.

CASEY Babe Ruth.
DAN We're not naming Babe Ruth athlete of the century.
CASEY Why not?
DAN 'Cause he wasn't.
CASEY He could play.
DAN He could hit.
CASEY He could hit far.
DAN He had to hit far 'cause you know what he couldn't do?
CASEY What?
DAN Run.

beantowndog: He could run okay for a fat man.

What helped Ruth, too, was that he was an exceptional talent at a time when the majority of players had offseason jobs. Ruth did not. He got to train and recover. Others didn't. He also didn't have to face minority pitchers. That said, he is among the greatest of all time, but to compare him to players of any other era is not really a comparison that can be made. It'd be like comparing Jim Brown to Barry Sanders. Or Random_Old_School_Defensive_Lineman to Reggie White. The game changes, and you cannot really compare them.

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Some more what?

First you toast the mallow.

Bader-Ginsburg?

machoprogrammer: What helped Ruth, too, was that he was an exceptional talent at a time when the majority of players had offseason jobs. Ruth did not. He got to train and recover. Others didn't. He also didn't have to face minority pitchers. That said, he is among the greatest of all time, but to compare him to players of any other era is not really a comparison that can be made. It'd be like comparing Jim Brown to Barry Sanders. Or Random_Old_School_Defensive_Lineman to Reggie White. The game changes, and you cannot really compare them.

Granted, there was a much smaller pool to get players from, but there were only 16 teams of 26 players. There were 416 players in 1920 vs 1200 today

Of course there were no Latino players, as well as blacks. The US population was 1/3 of today's, so the argument is still in your favor, just not as much as people think.

Don't get me started on the difference in travel.

Ruth was not some fat, lumbering ox. He was an outstanding defensive right fielder, and according to the biography of Lefty Gomez that just came out, a very graceful dancer too. Best baseball player ever, that we know of. We don't know what Josh Gibson or Satchel Paige's, or even Sadaharu Oh's stats would have been if they had been able to play their entire careers in MLB.

machoprogrammer: What helped Ruth, too, was that he was an exceptional talent at a time when the majority of players had offseason jobs. Ruth did not. He got to train and recover. Others didn't. He also didn't have to face minority pitchers. That said, he is among the greatest of all time, but to compare him to players of any other era is not really a comparison that can be made. It'd be like comparing Jim Brown to Barry Sanders. Or Random_Old_School_Defensive_Lineman to Reggie White. The game changes, and you cannot really compare them.

That is an interesting theory. I mean, I know that Ruth was obviously the highest paid player at the time, but, from how you are saying it, it was like if today one guy in the league got paid $3 million a year to player, and nearly everyone else in the league got paid $25,000 a year.

That may well be the case, but, can anyone put some more real context to that?

Babe Ruth was big, but many people think he was this gigantic fat man simply because the majority of photos and videos the public sees comes from his latter years.

Seriously, look at him when he was younger. Though the only six-pack anywhere around him was probably going to be a six-pack of beer, he wasn't filling out the uniform like Santa Claus fills out his red suit (as was the case later down the line).

And he was acceptable in speed. Though not Mickey Mantle pre-injury, he had a hell of a lot of triples in his career (though that is in large part due to park dimensions being freaking absurd).

The most dominant hitter of his era was also a really good pitcher. Therefore we should get rid of the DH position entirely.

/am i doing it right?

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