On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Walter Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > In the modern game, they'd have probably kept him in a pitching rotation, > unfortunately. > > He was a southpaw, after all. :-\
He was a leftie, and he was a hell of a pitcher! I think he may still have (or was it only very recently broken?) the record for consecutive scoreless innings in the World Series. It's just that he was so good a hitter that they couldn't afford to have him play once every four or five days. Hey, it's pretty hard to compare what he did (either as a pitcher or hitter) to today's game. He usually faced the same pitcher, no matter how tired or "off" he was, for nine innings. No relievers (unless the starter's arm had fallen off), no middle relievers, "set up men", closers. Just one pitcher for the whole game. Still, what we can do is compare Ruth to his contemporaries, and he still stands head and shoulders above the rest. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
