Did Babe Ruth dominate baseball at the same level Wayne Gretzky did hockey?

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

The closest you're going to get to a Babe Ruth level of dominance where a player also revolutionized their game is Don Hutson of the Packers.

Wilt Chamberlain, though. The NBA actually had to institute rule changes such as prohibiting throwing the ball over the backboard on inbounds plays because Chamberlain was too dominant and could not be stopped. Gretzky was awesome, no doubt, but Chamberlain should have been the guy IMO posed in the original question instead.

[johnmh71]

"Ruth saved baseball," said Billy Rogell, a Chicago orphan who grew up worshiping Shoeless Joe Jackson from the bleachers. Like the rest of the country, Rogell was devastated when his hero and the other Black Sox were found to have spikes of clay. A few years later, as a shortstop for the Red Sox and Tigers, Rogell had occcasion to experience Ruth's redemptive magic firsthand: "That's the only guy who in my thinking was a super ball player. There was only one like him. Listen, just walking out to the ballpark he'd have everybody clapping like hell. Ever see them do that for any other ball player? Like hell."
- Cobb Would have Caught It
The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit
pg. 30-31

[Zone91]

Author Joe Orlando of the book called ''The top 200 sports cards in the hobby'' had this to say about Wayne Gretzky:

''When you talk about great players from each sport, Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali come to mind but it is arguable that NO athlete EVER dominated his sport as much as Wayne Gretzky did. Gretzky holds over 60, that's 60 NHL records''.

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