Babe Ruth Ultimate High Light Legendary

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[Gostrobo]

I play baseball.To me baseball is like life Babe ruth was born 1895 died in 1948 53 years old

[Mechanized0]

@plang527 If more individuals realized how much 'functional strength' was required to endure farm work as well as the coal mines (HOF pitchers such as Ed Walsh come to mind) in the late 19th to early 20th century many individuals today might be so careless in their claims regarding the physical skills of players from the long past.

[Mechanized0]

@lomeloft "today's players are bigger, faster, and stronger...and that's a fact."

This is not necessarily true. Their strength is indeed greater in a weight lifter's sense but not necessarily in a baseball sense.

[lomeloft]

@plang527 you just repeated what i said..the players you mentioned would all do well today. im just saying that overall it is a better game today. my minor league coach played in the mlb in the 70s and he even said the same thing about today's players

[plang527]

@lomeloft I'm only 46 and up until 1990 ball player size was not much different,PEDs changed everything! If what you say is true, then why have the ballparks steadily become smaller? Baseball IS better today because of the pool of talent that exists since desegregation! Josh Gibson, Satchel Page, Lou Geghig,Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams....all large men would compete today at an elite level with todays nutrition and training! Also how do you explain a Dustin Pedroia at 5'7" 165lbs and an MVP?

[lomeloft]

@plang527 today's players are bigger, faster, and stronger...and that's a fact. You can just look at the players then and compare them to the players of today and see the difference. Today's players are as big as a lot of the linemen in the nfl back then lol..you are probably an older guy who doesnt wanna see that the baseball in your day wasn't as good as it is today. obviously there were elite players back then (like ruth) who would still dominate today, but overall baseball is better today

[plang527]

@lomeloft Btw, what makes you think these men didn't work out? That they walked off the farm and threw a ball and swung a bat? May I remind you that these men were OWNED by their teams and weren't guaranteed a job! They had to be in shape to compete every year or they would be gone and they were not permitted to sign with another franchise until they were in the league 10 years,unlike todays prima donnas! They may not have trained as we know it today, but they were in shape and literally hungry

[plang527]

@lomeloft "dude",it was accurate. You should try to expand your mind! They had a much harder, more physical lifestyle than today! They had to work in the off season and many of them traveled to Mexico and Cuba in the winter to play for the money. They pitched every other day, never had pitch counts, sometimes pitching double headers or even triple headers as in the Negro leagues! They trained their arms by constant use...not everything can be found in a modern gym! Math doesn't change with time!

[lomeloft]

@plang527 dude that was used for military artillery...it wasn't accurate. that was just the best thing they had back then. there's no way the players back then could throw as fast as players today. the guys today have better training, coaching, lift weights, work harder...the guys back then weren't super heroes who could just throw 100 mph without putting in all the work the guys do today.

[plang527]

@lomeloft In case you missed it- a baseball would be thrown through a delicate wire mesh suspended in a wooden frame. After brushing through the mesh, the ball would strike a sturdy steel plate bolted to the wall beyond. Attached to both the wires and the steel plate was the apparatus, which measured the two impacts and the time elapsed between them. Knowing the distance between the mesh and plate allowed the editors to determine the speed of the throw. It is said, Bob Feller broke 100 MPH!