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Originally Posted by HOF Auto Rookies
With all due respect, you must not know shit. Ruth did not have an excellent and complete all around game, you're arrogant for that assumption. To hit .342 he didn't need speed. As an earlier poster stated, the fields were deep. Anyone person could generalize Ruth was not fast, as evidenced by his steals and fielding, which you seem lacking to grasp. He had more triples than steals because of the deep fields. If a player hits at a .342 clip and gets on base nearly every other at bat, wouldn't you think they would run?
No Bonds was complete, 500-500. Unreal
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The "arrogance" of my assumptions is based on conversations with any one of several knowledgeable people who saw Ruth play, one of whom was the sports writer Shirley Povich. So I have no idea from where your assumptions are drawn other than what any one person who is not fully informed can generalize about, with all due respect.
As to my original post, it was, shall we say, overly aggressive. Sorry for that. I'll just say that I feel you are mistaken as to the all around quality of The Babe's game.