2007-12-31 16:54:13 · 31 answers · asked by Jonny Flash 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
beer and hot dogs, really he had skills that the pitchers could not figure out
2007-12-31 23:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by frogyspond 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't really have an answer for this question because it is so good. I have wondered the same thing for the last 4 years. I just think Babe Ruth was that dominant of a player and sometimes there are guys that come around that are simply built for the game. Take Michael Jordan for example, there will never be another player like him, ever. And Babe Ruth was actually a very avid conditioning athlete. He boxed to stay in shape. I don't think there is too many players out there that box to stay in shape. Another advantage Ruth had was that he was a pitcher and maybe because he knew how to pitch he could then have a better understanding of how to hit well and just perfected his swing.
2008-01-01 13:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was good, powerfull, skilled,determined and the Yankee Stadium had only 290 feet on the right field corner, so any 295 ft. high fly ball that in the modern parks is a lazy out was a homer. Definitely a baseball park dimensions help some hitters. Andre Dawson never hit more than 32 in his best times with Montreal and hit 46 or 47 when he played for Chicago and was not a shadow of what he was with the Expos.
2008-01-03 07:29:10 · answer #3 · answered by candyman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ruth was just a freak. He would have made the Hall as a pitcher. Some guys are just once-in-a-lifetime exceptional, and Ruth was one of those guys.
2008-01-01 14:24:07 · answer #4 · answered by Buffalo1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Testosterone is an anabolic steroid, and all males have large amounts of testosterone in their body. So your question needs to be revised....
If you want to know why players such as Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Willie Mays and Henry Aaron hit so many home runs without the "aid" of performance enhancing substances, it is because the whole "steroids era" is a media driven fallacy.
Taking anabolic steroids and HGH will not help a player hit more home runs, hit for a higher average or add 10mph to their fastball. It may help a player recover from injury, but the medical evidence of this is so circumstantial that it is discredited amongst the medical community.
This is not to say that many MLB players (and other athletes) don't use anabolic steriods in the mistaken belief that it will help be better players, because they do. It is just that they don't work in that way! If they did hundreds of players would routinely hit 100 home runs a season, and 1000 home runs in a career would be the norm.
2007-12-31 19:16:26 · answer #5 · answered by Flamethrower 3 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Bad pitching, a short right field porch, and protection within the lineup.
2007-12-31 18:49:40 · answer #6 · answered by the_texas_hammer 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He was just that damn good
2007-12-31 17:24:42 · answer #7 · answered by Mark P 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For one thing,,,,ground rule doubles of today were counted as homeruns back then.
2007-12-31 17:17:42 · answer #8 · answered by Pronk 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
beer is better
2007-12-31 17:03:05 · answer #9 · answered by seahawks37 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
maybe the pitchers back then werent as good as they are now?
2007-12-31 17:02:02 · answer #10 · answered by what? 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Oh, that's easy, he was the best player in the history of baseball.
He was strong as an ox and had a great batting eye and the thing that he understood fundamentally is if he should 'hit em where they ain't', well, they ain't in the stands.
2007-12-31 16:58:29 · answer #11 · answered by brettj666 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋