Which pre-war stars could play today?

[rhettyeakley]

Ask Ruben Sierra how getting bigger and stronger helped out his baseball career.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

Ask Ruben Sierra how getting bigger and stronger helped out his baseball career.

...and Brian and Marcus Giles (Roid Brothers)....and Mark Prior.....and.....

[John V]

We're not talking about steroid users.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by John V

We're not talking about steroid users.

Well if your talking modern day ball players (Arod, Manny, Pudge) then you are talking steroid users. And the ones not on Roids are on other growth supplements. So kinda hard to compare players from 70+ years to modern players.

It's like saying do you think the Soldiers of the Revolutionary War could take on todays Army. It's apples and onions.

[DanP]

I read an article in Baseball Digest 20+ years ago. The writer suggested that Babe Ruth should have an asterisk next to his home run record, not Roger Maris. His reasoning (if I remember correctly) was that most of the pitchers that the Babe hit his HR's off of would not even have made it to the majors in 1961. He listed all the pitchers and I think some stat's.

I believe that is true, while there certainly were some great pitchers back then, most would not make it to AAA in today's game.

I did a quick google search, here's the list:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats12c.shtml


Dan

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by DanP

I read an article in Baseball Digest 20+ years ago. The writer suggested that Babe Ruth should have an asterisk next to his home run record, not Roger Maris. His reasoning (if I remember correctly) was that most of the pitchers that the Babe hit his HR's off of would not even have made it to the majors in 1961.

And he based this "reasoning" on what? 1961 was less than 30 years after the Babe was actively playing baseball. What exactly happened (other than the Color barrier) changed so dramatically (other than expansion) to the game in 30 years that the author could make that type of statement?

That would be like someone sayng that Mike Schmidt or Willie Mays would be bums today because everyone is so much better--does anyone really believe that?