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Originally Posted by That Guy
yeah, ruth had a pretty bad childhood that probably contributed to a lot of his problems, and it'd just be hard to just tranplant all his circumstances into today and even make a wild guess as too what would happen...
the average player today is better, but that's because there's more money and more exposure (which brings more competition), so i'm not even sure a stat to stat comparision is even that useful... hell, his drinking may have bounced him out of the league and left him in a shelter... who knows?
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plus players now put a lot more time in the gym than they did back in the day. and in ruths time, leagues were still segregated so he never really played with and against the complete mixture of the best ballplayers.