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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Was Ruth known contemporaneously as "The Great Man" or was that just spontaneous inspiration by the writer, I wonder? One could not write that story today -- imagine someone describing Barry Bonds that way.
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My wife's Dad, Joe (an avid Yankees fan), saw Ruth and Gehrig play. He didn't recall Ruth being referred to as "the Great Man". Joe had a bunch of sports page clippings
that he saved as a kid from the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Post, and Trenton Times (circa 1930's). It wasn't in any of these write-ups.
I may be wrong....but I'd say this term to describe Ruth was created by that reporter in the Pittsburgh newspaper.
TED Z