I hope a meteor hits slightly left of home plate when Barry Bonds goes up to bat 1 HR away from breaking the Babe's record. Babe Ruth is probably the greatest player of all time. Forget how Hank Aaron hit more home runs. Babe hit 29 home runs when the record before that was around 27 home runs. Next year, he hit 54 or 59 or something, and the rest is history. That's twice the previous record. When people break records today, they're doing so by 1 or 2 HR, or hits in a season. Guys like Babe Ruth, Bobby Orr (hockey), Wilt Chamberlain, Pele........those guys are the ones who literally do twice as good as any other player at the time, and raise the bar high. To be 2nd best player of the season meant you might be half as good as Babe Ruth was that year. He hit more home runs than entire teams.......actually, pretty much every team in the league but a few. Just imagine what that means.
And while being the best hitter, Babe was also the best pitcher in baseball at one point.
Instead of putting an asterisk beside Barry Bond's name for taking a performance enhancing drug, lets put an asterisk beside Babe Ruth's name since he was a fat alcoholic that chewed tobacco, and his lifestyle was like taking a performance de-hancing drug. Yet he's STILL a better player than Bonds was naturally.
