HOF,
You also have made some good points and I appreciate the fact that you have your own opinion (See, we can play nice)
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I mean no disrespect, but...
I'd like to make a few small points to make before you grab your ball and go home:
I forget who brought up the point, but I don't think that we can diminish the
massive changes in the equipment of The Big Bam's era vs. now.
Babe's era = small, primitive gloves that really lent themselves to players making more errors than now. There can't be any debate that the substantial improvements made in modern glove design have given position players advantages over players from Babe's era. Babe played during part of the deadball era. It's no secret that the crappy balls of his era weren't designed to fly out of the park like the tightly wound rabbit balls of today.
Barry's era = Modern gloves, rabbit balls, lowering the mound height for opposing pitchers all helped Barry and the modern players. Perhaps a lesser point, but what about the alleged advantages of Barry's maple bats vs. the ash bats of Babe's era?
Just wondering if this is really a fair comparison at all... Both were excellent players of their own eras, no doubt.
Barry the superior player?? I'm not so sure about that...
Just my opinion...