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Originally Posted by jsarno

While I would like to agree with you with Ruth, I can not simply because back in Ruth's day, people weren't training to be baseball players. They did it for a job in a lot of cases, but did not take time out to train daily. Golfers now a days train daily...these people are the cream of the crop. They have high tech equipment, and trainers, and so on. The fact that Ruth was better than the others isn't as impressive to me as the Fact that Woods is far and away better than any golfer that ever lived.

plus Ruth, while great, wasn't playing against the absolute best in baseball due to segregation.