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Babe Ruth Swing Clip

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[bionicbigfoot]

Greatest ever. HOF pitching numbers, didn't become regular batter till age 26. Not completely "dead", but much more sluggish ball. Terrible bats. Massive parks. Horrible travel. No nutrition, team workouts, or video to study. GREAT pitchers, spitballs legal. Babe lost dozens of HRs due to existent "foul" rules. He was NOT a strictly pull hitter, hit HRs every part of field. Again, simply the greatest ever. Read the book, "The Year BR Hit 100 HRs", and you'll see. Astounding.

[hinkie07]

@tubage07 diluted talent? as compared to 1920 or 30? ha! baseball is a profession now. it was a game back then. you can take any organization pick 10 random pitchers and you will find more pure "talent" than any pitching staff from that day and age. guranteed

[RisingSon011]

@ttettleton2 wrong - ness .

[tubage07]

You are delusional, ttettleton. Baseballs are wound much tighter today, and fly farther now. Ruth would dominate today's game just as he did in the past ---perhaps even more. Imagine Ruth with a 33-34-ounce bat, modern weight training and nutrition, and today's much smaller ballparks. Not to mention today's diluted talent due to 30 MLB staffs of 11 pitchers per team.

[ttettleton2]

@doz222 and @bjoshoees baseballs were wound much tighter in this era compared to today's standard baseball, so balls flew a lot farther and went a lot faster than they do today as well. I'm not knocking his achievements in anyway, he was clearly the best hitter of his era; however I do not think he could make it in the MLB today because of previously mentioned reasons.

[doz222]

@ttettleton2 ball parks were huge compared to todays small ball parks, center at yankee stadium during ruth's era was 490 feet compared to 408 today, so yeah bigger ballparks help pitchers get outs that would be homeruns today.

[bjoshees]

Babe was the man! I disagree with you ttettleton2 Modern people always think things are so much better now, than those back then. We always think we are so sophisticated than those before us, but just the opposite is true in that their generation is classier than people now. We are not evolving but de-volving into beasts...just look at our 'music' and the horror in our newsreels! The 21st century athletes live on drugs, pills and steroids! Wish you were here Babe Ruth!

[ttettleton2]

@CombatMTv3 You do realize most of the hitters sucked back then too right? Maybe they were better relative to the talent they played against but overall, all the talent in the majors and all of organized baseball has gone up greatly since then. There's no way Ruth would be able to get a 48oz bat around on a 95 MPH fastball. Even though there is no way of proving this, if any pitcher from now went and pitched back then, they would put up way better numbers than the pitchers you just named.

[CombatMTv3]

@ttettleton2 Christy Matthewson, Lefty Gomez, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Cy Young, Eddie Plank, Three Finger Brown, Ed Walsh (career 1.82 ERA) Dont forget it was the dead ball era.

Who do you have now who completely dominate? Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, Sabathia or Carpenter maybe, not too many more people you see ending their career that started in the 90s or late 80s end with a career era under 2.50.

[ttettleton2]

@CombatMTv3 are you kidding?! how was pitching tougher back then than now???