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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Bryan

"Ruth would have been just another face in the deadball era".

Hmmm....didn't Ruth start as a pitcher? Are you forgetting that
in his short pitching career he was one of the best Lefthanded
pitchers ever? Some of his World Series pitching records still
stand.
I have to think if he was born just a few years earlier and
pitched during the real deadball era, he would have been even
more awesome as a pitcher.
But it was not just Ruth's prodigious accomplishments,it was
also his "bigger-than-life" personality that endeared him to
the American public. I don't get where you are coming from.

I really think you should re-consider what you said.