Are the first 50 years of MLB equal to high school baseball or worse?

Question

Many MLB players did not practice in the off season and had to get jobs. Most did not even come close to the amount of training high schoolers spend tuning their bodies all year round. The equipment and training used today was not even invented. A player today can spend hours watching videos of pitchers they are going to face and same goes for pitchers watching batting videos. Would babe Ruth make it in the minor leagues today without the training and technology of our times?

Answer 1

How many days did Ruth spend on the disabled list? How many other modern-day players moved from being a starting pitcher to becoming a career home-run leader in the record book? How many modern-day players hit their last three home runs on their last day as a player in a ball park whose centerfield wall was 550 feet from home plate?
I think Ruth and the others of his era would survive quite nicely in the minor leagues today. Very few of them would stand around the on-deck circle posing for the scouts instead of watching the game and its nuances.

Answer 2

You could write a book on this one. But I won't.

I think today's players are, as a group, better than their predecesors. They are bigger, in better health, better fed, work out more and know more about the game. Today's all-stars could beat those of 100 years ago. Ty Cobb was considered a giant of a man, something like Dave Winfield. Cobb was 6-foot-2.

However, I think great players are still going to be great players. There is more talent out there now than there was then because the money has attracted a larger share of the population, and there are more people in the player pool (minorities, non-Americans, etc.) But guys like Babe Ruth are still at the far end of the bell-shaped curve that represents talent.

This is a roundabout way of saying that Ruth probably would be a great player in this day and age. I don't think he would dominate as much as he did in his era, because the competition would be better. His stats would come down a bit, since he'd facing more "good" players today. But he'd still be really good.

And, if Ruth were alive today, he'd have the advantages of today's players in terms of nutrition and strength training.

Answer 3

ruth was BY FAR the best player the only one that came within a mile was
micky mantel
and dont say o this is just a yankee fan bragen
but no im bosten and a phillidelphia fan



babe was a alcaholic and a wominizer
he showed up to every game drunk and tired
and still hit a homer everygame

and hank aaron broke his all time home run record but hank had more then 5,000 AB the ruth



just think about that

babe ruth drunk and unheathly eating like a pig everyday not practicing and just acting like a bum is better then hank aaron sober training in the off season and being a family man







if babe ruth laied off the drugs and booze imaginge the numbers he would have


like 80 HR a year

Answer 4

Babe Ruth, if he played today, would easily have over 800 homeruns. I don't know what you're talking about highschool baseball being similar to the type of baseball from the first 50 years. It may have been harder back then becasue they didn't have all of the extra padding and effective equipment. The pitching mound was higher back then and hitting was a bit harder in the larger stadiums. Highschool baseball is a joke. College baseball is okay, but it uses metal bats.

You can't really compare them, but Highschool Baseball isn't anywhere near any MLB season,ever.

Answer 5

I think you should stay in your grade. I think you sound very mature, but you might not be ready for middle school yet, plus you will always be a year behind. Therefore you might have to be taking regular classes all your life, therefore missing college. When you get to high school you can take some challenging classes regardless of the grade you're in, just stay there. You'll have a lot more fun. You already have friends and I would say you could make more friends in Middle School, but that might not be true. They might not like you, especially if you are in the regular classes, for being there. I really think you should stay, but whatever you decide, I wish you the best of luck =) EDIT: I apologize for using the word "missing" college. You won't miss it, but colleges might not see your full potential, they won't care if you took an AP class designed for sophomores as a freshman even though you should be in 8th grade, they'll just wonder why your grade isn't an A. I really think you should stay. As for being bored, try to challenge yourself in the classes you are taking now! Try to have competitions with some of the best of the best of your school on certain tests or report card grades. Try to be the one that knows the most answers, make it competitive. Once again, good luck =)

Answer 6

if babe ruth played today...he would have over 1000 home runs easily. only because the parks when he played were about 100 feet smaller, which makes it easier for him to play.

and mlb was way better. no question. babe ruth, the greatest hitter of all time, and cy young, the greatest pitcher of all time pitched then as well.

Answer 7

Never heard anything like this before. Catchers didn't even wear face masks until early 1900's. Early baseball didn't even have fielders gloves-they wore oversize leather gloves. There is no way early baseball could even be compared to high school ball.

Football was really brutal in the beginning. No pads or helmets. They outawed the "flying wedge" because players were being maimed and almost killed.

Answer 8

When you consider these guys were hitting a "dead ball" that hardly traveled, had longer fences in which to hit a home run, and played in the era of legal spit balls, I would say they could hold their own against anyone.