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#151
#151
Great Ty Cobb story:

Cobb is tired of Babe Ruth. Everyone keeps talking about hitting home runs and he hears his teammates talking about how "amazing" Ruth is. Cobb basically says "**** him, hitting home runs is easy" and hits three in a doubleheader.

Just awesome.
 
#154
#154
zjcvols said:
Great Ty Cobb story:

Cobb is tired of Babe Ruth. Everyone keeps talking about hitting home runs and he hears his teammates talking about how "amazing" Ruth is. Cobb basically says "**** him, hitting home runs is easy" and hits three in a doubleheader.

Just awesome.
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But he was a monumental prick.
 
#155
#155
BigPapaVol said:
Doesn't. He was the best. Had he not gotten fat and lazy, it would be so absurdly skewed his way that it wouldn't be worth the conversations.
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Just part of my issue is, how do we know? I mean, yes, Babe Ruth would be a HOF playing in any era, but he didn't play with blacks or latinos. Could he have put those stats up with blacks/latinos? Sure. The problem is we don't know (at least I don't).
 
#159
#159
JTrainDavis said:
Talking about the Best Ever with Ruth in the field is no fun. It's an unarguable fact.
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If we are going on stats alone, and ignoring eras, then yes, it's easy. Ruth is the greatest of all time.
 
#160
#160
NYYVol said:
But he was a monumental prick.
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So was Williams. After my grandfather left the hospital in 1946, came home, and went to Yankee Stadium.

Williams hit a tater, crowd booed, and at about 2nd base Ted gave the one finger salute with both hands all the way to the plate.

Grandpa was a Yankee fan, he loved it.
 
#161
#161
zjcvols said:
Just part of my issue is, how do we know? I mean, yes, Babe Ruth would be a HOF playing in any era, but he didn't play with blacks or latinos. Could he have put those stats up with blacks/latinos? Sure. The problem is we don't know (at least I don't).
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The spread from him to his peers is wider than any player at any other time in the game.
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#165
#165
JTrainDavis said:
So was Williams. After my grandfather left the hospital in 1946, came home, and went to Yankee Stadium.

Williams hit a tater, crowd booed, and at about 2nd base Ted gave the one finger salute with both hands all the way to the plate.

Grandpa was a Yankee fan, he loved it.
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My Grandfather was in the house that very game as well. He too was a Yankee fan and laughed about it until the day he died.
 
#167
#167
JTrainDavis said:
So was Williams. After my grandfather left the hospital in 1946, came home, and went to Yankee Stadium.

Williams hit a tater, crowd booed, and at about 2nd base Ted gave the one finger salute with both hands all the way to the plate.

Grandpa was a Yankee fan, he loved it.
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It's incredible he hit .345 and refused to take the ball the other way.
 
#169
#169
NYYVol said:
My Grandfather was in the house that very game as well. He too was a Yankee fan and laughed about it until the day he died.
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Small world. Those "Red Flops", he liked Ted and Fred Lynn, and Tony Conigliaro. The rest he respected begrudgingly.
 
#170
#170
Williams lead the league in OBP TWELVE TIMES. He averaged 143 BB over a 162 game a season for his career.
 
#172
#172
JTrainDavis said:
Small world. Those "Red Flops", he liked Ted and Fred Lynn, and Tony Conigliaro. The rest he respected begrudgingly.
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He loved Ted and even said he cried when Ted was rolled out during the All Star game at Fenway in '99?
 
#173
#173
Williams also use to practice swings while standing in the outfield
 
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