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Jim Jackson said:
Do you toss Ruth props because his great years were in the Bronx?



not at all.

admittedly, i'm not that bigga ruth fan. my two big yankee favorites are mattingly and mantle. mebbe some room for dimaggio.

i honestly don't really reflect ever on ruth being a yankee. i mean, of course, he is, but... its not something that really comes to mind. frankly, its difficult to think of him as a ballplayer! the only footage you ever really see is so ancient, its like a different world.

rather, i give props to ruth simply because he's earned them. stats and legends are hard to ignore.

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Jim Jackson said:
You mean dwarfing his all-white contemporaries.
For me, Ruth's numbers will always be tainted because of the Segregation of the period.




seems a bit odd to judge on that basis. its not like it was ruth's fault.

why so low on the white population? i think white baseball players have pretty much held their own for quite some time. assuming black and latin players were playing back then, there's no reason to believe it would have made the tremendous difference in ruth you think it would have.

in 60 years, if the MLB has hundreds of women players, or there's a huge asian "invasion," you can't really hold that against player's of today's game, just because they didn't compete against them.

ruth was infinitely superior to all of his major league contemporaries. a superiority differential that has yet to be equalled by any one, with or without racial boundaries.

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Jim Jackson said:
And regarding surgeries, winter ball, rehab, the advancement of conditioning...at least these advances do not notice what color a player is...




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