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Old 10-18-2025, 01:04 PM
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Remember though, that WAR compares you to your contemporaries, so that brings you back to the level of competition being much flatter (at a higher level) than in Ruth's day.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that if you just beamed Babe Ruth forward 100 years with his then-level of conditioning, training, nutrition, etc. and put him on the mound or in the batter's box, he would not be nearly as good as he was against his contemporaries. I know people will disagree with that. But to me it's not really the point.
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