The Babe hits no. 60

[Trajan]

so, today is the anniversary of the Bambinos 60th homerun....


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOt0Tmwc2Rk]Babe Ruth 60th Homerun - 1927 - YouTube[/ame]




Maris had 8 more games, McGuire, Bonds needed 'help', Sosa? Puuuuhleeeazzze...



The Babe is still the King, Long Live the King.

 

[DGS49]

Babe Ruth was a phenomenon. He was one of the best left-handed pitchers in the Majors for a couple years, but they just couldn't keep his bat out of the lineup.

Without bad-moouthing Henry Aaron, it is enlightening to compare the two of them statistically. A common metric that is used is extrapolating statistics to a typical 162 game season, based on averages. In that mythical season, Ruth bats .342 to Aaron's .305; Ruth hits 46 homers to Aaron's 37. RBI's it's 143 to 113. As you can see, it's not even close. Aaron took almost 4,000 more times at bat to hit his 755 home runs. Ruth actually lost an untold number of HR's because when he was playing if the ball landed over the fence, but outside an extended foul line, it was just a foul ball. Now (and in Aaron's time) if the ball clears the fence fair, it's a home run regardless of where it lands. Ruth, a pull hitter, would sometimes hit more than one ball "foul" in a single at bat that would have been a home run under current rules.

And who can even imagine if Ruth had started his career as a left fielder rather than as a pitcher, or if he had taken care of himself physically?

The 60-home-run record is just the tip of the iceberg of Ruth's accomplishments.

Thanks for the reminder.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

so, today is the anniversary of the Bambinos 60th homerun....


Babe Ruth 60th Homerun - 1927 - YouTube




Maris had 8 more games, McGuire, Bonds needed 'help', Sosa? Puuuuhleeeazzze...



The Babe is still the King, Long Live the King.

Thats what I been saying forever for the longest time that the Babe is the TRUE home run King still. Baby Barry and Mcguire needed roids to do it so they are cheaters and I never even once thought about sosa and yeah Maris had more games so Babe wins still.

He also is still the all time home run leader for a career since Hank had more games in a season as well.

 

[Trajan]

Babe Ruth was a phenomenon. He was one of the best left-handed pitchers in the Majors for a couple years, but they just couldn't keep his bat out of the lineup.

Without bad-moouthing Henry Aaron, it is enlightening to compare the two of them statistically. A common metric that is used is extrapolating statistics to a typical 162 game season, based on averages. In that mythical season, Ruth bats .342 to Aaron's .305; Ruth hits 46 homers to Aaron's 37. RBI's it's 143 to 113. As you can see, it's not even close. Aaron took almost 4,000 more times at bat to hit his 755 home runs. Ruth actually lost an untold number of HR's because when he was playing if the ball landed over the fence, but outside an extended foul line, it was just a foul ball. Now (and in Aaron's time) if the ball clears the fence fair, it's a home run regardless of where it lands. Ruth, a pull hitter, would sometimes hit more than one ball "foul" in a single at bat that would have been a home run under current rules.

And who can even imagine if Ruth had started his career as a left fielder rather than as a pitcher, or if he had taken care of himself physically?

The 60-home-run record is just the tip of the iceberg of Ruth's accomplishments.

Thanks for the reminder.

yup, he was also hitting more home-runs than some teams combined.......if thats not absolute superiority, I don't know what is...

 

[TheOldSchool]

Imagine how many more he would have had if foul ball rules were the same as now and with 11 more games on the schedule like it is now.

Long live the Bambino!

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Hero's get remembered, but legends never die!

 

[Papageorgio]

The Bambino will always be the first king of the Home Run, Long live the King!

 

[zonly1]

so, today is the anniversary of the Bambinos 60th homerun....


Babe Ruth 60th Homerun - 1927 - YouTube




Maris had 8 more games, McGuire, Bonds needed 'help', Sosa? Puuuuhleeeazzze...



The Babe is still the King, Long Live the King.

He did it on beer, hotdogs, cigars, new cars, and women.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

so, today is the anniversary of the Bambinos 60th homerun....


Babe Ruth 60th Homerun - 1927 - YouTube




Maris had 8 more games, McGuire, Bonds needed 'help', Sosa? Puuuuhleeeazzze...



The Babe is still the King, Long Live the King.

He did it on beer, hotdogs, cigars, new cars, and women.

yeah thats whats REALLY amazing about it.glad to hear the hall voters did the right thing and did not vote in roids Barry.if pete rose is banned for betting on games,then he sure as hell needs to be banned.grrrr. the thing that disgusted me though is even though barry didnt get the number of votes needed to be in,he got like half the votes needed or something like that.those people that voted for him are a disgrace to the game.

 

[Papageorgio]

Watched a special about Ruth, to bad his life ended so soon, he had a lot to give to baseball, if baseball would have let him.

 

[Billo_Really]

so, today is the anniversary of the Bambinos 60th homerun....


Babe Ruth 60th Homerun - 1927 - YouTube




Maris had 8 more games, McGuire, Bonds needed 'help', Sosa? Puuuuhleeeazzze...



The Babe is still the King, Long Live the King.

Do you know what his slugging percentage was in 1927?

.847

 

[Billo_Really]

Watched a special about Ruth, to bad his life ended so soon, he had a lot to give to baseball, if baseball would have let him.

They didn't have to let him.

Ruth took everything he wanted.

 

[Papageorgio]

Watched a special about Ruth, to bad his life ended so soon, he had a lot to give to baseball, if baseball would have let him.

They didn't have to let him.

Ruth took everything he wanted.

He wanted to manage and still be a part of the game, other than the Red Sox, nobody let him near the field.

 

[Billo_Really]

The Bambino will always be the first king of the Home Run, Long live the King!

Show some respect, asshole.

He's the Sultan of Swat!

 

[Billo_Really]

He wanted to manage and still be a part of the game, other than the Red Sox, nobody let him near the field.

Because he was drunk and had a couple hookers on his arms.

 

[Billo_Really]

Something else worth noting about Ruth's homers.

He hit them all during the "dead ball" era.

 

[Trajan]

Something else worth noting about Ruth's homers.

He hit them all during the "dead ball" era.

the dead ball era ended in 1920......

 

[Papageorgio]

He wanted to manage and still be a part of the game, other than the Red Sox, nobody let him near the field.

Because he was drunk and had a couple hookers on his arms.

Because, Joe Torre, LaRussa and any number of managers never drank or had hookers on their arms. Give me a break.

 

[Billo_Really]

the dead ball era ended in 1920......

You're right! I was wrong. I thank you for the correction.

Babe Ruth hit 27 home runs during the dead ball era.

 

[Billo_Really]

Because, Joe Torre, LaRussa and any number of managers never drank or had hookers on their arms. Give me a break.

You never saw Mickey Mantle drunk with hookers now, did ya?

 

[DGS49]

Ruth's desire to be a manager was well-known, and Col. Rupert freely released him from his "reserve clause," so he could manage anywhere he could find a position.

Certainly, he had a lot of baseball knowledge, but his well-known escapades would have made it near impossible for him to enforce discipline on his team.

Also, people who have been naturally gifted have not generally made good managers.

I think today somebody would give him a shot, if only for the publicity.