here's my whole squad c-johnny bench 1b-jimmie fox 2b-rogers hornsby 3b-mike shcmidt ss-derek jeter lf-ricky henderson cf-ty cobb rf-roberto clemente dh-frank thomas sp-warren spahn sp-nolan ryan sp-satchel paige sp-roger clemens sp-carlos zambrano (don't laugh, need his bat for nl games.) rp-mariano rivera rp-dennis eckersley utility player-pete rose manager; phillip wellman [video=youtube_share;H2UdDsgB22s]http://youtu.be/H2UdDsgB22s[/video]
That is the great thing about baseball. Its long history and the fact that Babe Ruth would be the best player in the league today if he played today. The game has changed so little.
it's worth being said that bade ruth, and others of his time, played in a segregated league. although, to his/their credit, it was also the dead ball era.
And they also didn't have the advantage of hitting against the bottom of rotations with a watered down league.
Also, Ruth went from pitching (which he was one of, if not the best, left-hander in the league at the time) to hitting, it had already changed to the live ball era. They changed balls when they got dirty and changed how they were wound. So he really hit in the modern game sans black/Hispanic pitchers. Yeah, I use emoticons on other boards. I try to limit them here, as I rarely see the members use them. I find them vital to conveying tone sometimes, and they slip through.
Being a dead ball pitcher had to have been the greatest job ever. Show up drunk, doctor the shit out of a lopsided baseball, throw 60mph trash for 18 innings, get black out drunk in your brothel/whorehouse of choice immediately following the game.
