Posted By:
peter chaoBarry, Ted, Guys,
There's no doubt in my mind that Ruth and baseball is similar to Jordan and basketball. They are personalities that went beyond the confines of their sport.
However, I'm asking about the best hitter. If Teddy Ballgame wasn't such an arrogant SOB he could have batted over .400 several times by going to the opposite field. But no...he kept on trying to pull into the infield shift.
But what can you say, actually the time he batted .401 was sheer arrogance. Going into the last double-header in 1941 his batting average actually rounded up to .400, but instead of acting normal and sitting it out like most of us, he got something like 5 or 6 hits and raised his average to .401.
Peter