"He was like "Forget Ruth, man'."
In some ways, though, you almost gotta agree with that. The Babe's biggest contribution to baseball was salvaging it after the Black Sox Scandal. Babe was a great player, no doubt (because he also won 20 games twice). But he never faced the truly best players. He played against no Blacks. No Latins. There were fewer types of pitches for him to have to learn to hit. And speeds were much slower. And there was no relief pitching. He was a fat guy with spindly legs.
We gotta stop glamorizing the Babe.
