In the modern game, they'd have probably kept him in a pitching
rotation, unfortunately.
He was a southpaw, after all. :-\
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On 11/22/2010 2:07 PM, frank theriault wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Steven Desjardins<drd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, it's all about Babe Ruth. Very few American sports figures have
so towered in their sport. Hence the American adjective "Ruthian".
It may be true that he literally saved baseball. After the Black Sox
scandal attendance dropped around the majors. Ruth was the superstar
that turned that around and brought fans back to the parks again.
And why not? He single-handedly changed the way the game was played.
Until he came along home runs were not a part of the game - it was
thought to be better to keep the ball in the park, to keep rallies
going, to continue to have base runners.
Turned out, however, that the fans ~loved~ home runs!
His finest year is thought by many to have been 1920, when he hit 54
home runs, with a .376 batting average. He hit more home runs than
any other ~team~ in the league that year, except the Phillies who hit
(as a team) 64 homers.
And he did all that while drinking and eating to excess, whoring
around and playing many games hung over. Imagine if he'd had modern
training techniques available to him? Hard to know...
cheers,
frank
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