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john/z28jdThis guy was on sportscenter everyday with the home run watch for 3 straight years thats all you heard about were projections,ratios what Ruth and Maris had at each point in their seasons.I worked at a golf center during the year he hit 70 home runs,my friend owned a restaurant inside the place,and the place stopped dead during his at-bats and watched the 2 little tv's inside the gift shop.People who didnt watch baseball were glued to the sets and could probably tell you where they were now when he hit home run 70
If you went to the hall of fame the year or year after his 70 HR season you wouldve seen a room dedicated solely to that feat,the pitchers who let up the homers,momentos from each homers.This is the hall of fame,the ultimate when talking about baseball and they had an entire room only for his home runs. You cant go up from there,there is no where to go past hall of fame and no one else has a big room just for doing one thing real good.Theres no Randy Johnson,Cy Young, or Rickey Henderson room in the building
That is the epitomy of overrating someone.Taking one stat and elevating him to a god-like status because of it.His other stats dont matter to anyone as long as his HR ratio is the best.He wasnt a better home run hitter than Kiner or Ruth tho,you have to judge them by what players around them did too because they came along a long time before the lively ball era of the late 90s early 00's