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Originally Posted by DanP
I read an article in Baseball Digest 20+ years ago. The writer suggested that Babe Ruth should have an asterisk next to his home run record, not Roger Maris. His reasoning (if I remember correctly) was that most of the pitchers that the Babe hit his HR's off of would not even have made it to the majors in 1961.
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And he based this "reasoning" on what? 1961 was less than 30 years after the Babe was actively playing baseball. What exactly happened (other than the Color barrier) changed so dramatically (other than expansion) to the game in 30 years that the author could make that type of statement?
That would be like someone sayng that Mike Schmidt or Willie Mays would be bums today because everyone is so much better--does anyone really believe that?