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Originally Posted by packs
When Ruth played the best athletes in the country played baseball. Today they don't. My point applies to all professional baseball players in Ruth's time, not just white players. I think the average professional baseball player at the top of their game was better in the past than they are now.
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I'm sure some of the best athletes back then wound up as doing something else, because the risk/reward for playing baseball just wasn't worth it. I just don't think that in the olden days, that playing baseball was necessarily the glamorous job that it is today..