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Originally Posted by packs
(Ruth) wasn’t the best pitcher in the league
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Neither is Ohtani, but the Babe was 87-45 from 1915 thru 1919 plus 3-0 in the World Series in an era of one round of post season games, not the current four.
He also hit 49 home runs in that five year dead ball span, which sounds better when you find out that the rest of Red Sox line up combined hit another 40.
None of us can possibly comprehend an era where a single player, starts game 1 of the World Series with a complete game shutout, takes the win in game 4, and would have pitched again in game 7 (so obviously is the team's ace), then hits 29 home runs the next year (cue Yanks interest followed by the complete and total mindset of how baseball is played) while the rest of his teammates combined to hit...
Wait for it...
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Ohtani is amazing, I get it, but come on, as I said in my initial post to this thread :
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Originally Posted by doug.goodman
I would have voted "neither".
They both exist in different dimensions with their own gravitational rules.
We mere mortals are lucky that we are allowed to witness them.
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PS - I love Fred's Godzilla / King Kong analogy