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Animalman said:
Ruth also didn't have the benefit of the medical advancements we have today. There was no "rehab", no major surgeries. There were no big training facilities where he could spend the winter working out.
His being idolized wasn't as much based on the fact that Ruth was a great baseball player as it was on the fact that he was so much better than everyone else in his time. His accomplishments truly did dwarf those of his contemporaries.
You mean dwarfing his all-white contemporaries.
And regarding surgeries, winter ball, rehab, the advancement of conditioning...at least these advances do not notice what color a player is...
For me, Ruth's numbers will always be tainted because of the Segregation of the period.
Sorry.
Jim
We all wear a green carnation.
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