Baseball had been played pretty hard for 50 years before Ruth showed up,
Just about Every type of organization had a team (Schools, towns, churches,business,etc many leagues with paid players) Not saying skills were up to today’s level but Players who made it to the major leagues were a lot better than your average janitor/plumber. As someone noted earlier though there’s a difference between best and greatest, but I still voted Ruth I guess because he did it for longer.
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