Comments on: Who Needs Home Runs? http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/05/27/who-needs-home-runs/ For unbelievable true sports stories and believable false ones! Sat, 05 May 2012 06:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Cronin http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/05/27/who-needs-home-runs/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Brian Cronin Sat, 30 May 2009 02:07:16 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=418#comment-115 Speaker continued to be critical of Ruth for some time afterward, Crzytlk (mostly in being dismissive of him compared to Ty Cobb), so I think that's why his biographers and the newspapers of the day all feel he wasn't being sarcastic with the phrase. Speaker continued to be critical of Ruth for some time afterward, Crzytlk (mostly in being dismissive of him compared to Ty Cobb), so I think that’s why his biographers and the newspapers of the day all feel he wasn’t being sarcastic with the phrase.

]]> By: Crzytlk http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/05/27/who-needs-home-runs/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Crzytlk Fri, 29 May 2009 21:46:00 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=418#comment-114 Why wasn't it sarcastic. Reads that way and makes sense that way Why wasn’t it sarcastic. Reads that way and makes sense that way

]]> By: Brian Cronin http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/05/27/who-needs-home-runs/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Brian Cronin Thu, 28 May 2009 21:45:08 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=418#comment-113 Yeah, it truly was, Stephen. It's really an extremely short list. Ruth, Ted Williams and Barry Bonds, and that's about it, vis a vis a a batter dominating a league that badly. Ruth's OPS was about THREE HUNDRED points higher than the #2 guy! Yeah, it truly was, Stephen.

It’s really an extremely short list. Ruth, Ted Williams and Barry Bonds, and that’s about it, vis a vis a a batter dominating a league that badly. Ruth’s OPS was about THREE HUNDRED points higher than the #2 guy!

]]> By: Stephen http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/05/27/who-needs-home-runs/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Stephen Thu, 28 May 2009 18:03:11 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=418#comment-112 "And in 1920, Babe Ruth hit .376 (fourth in the league - Speaker was second) with 54 home runs and 137 runs batted in. " Still quite possibly the greatest statistical season in sports history. Imagine someone hitting 130 home runs today and you just begin to approach what Ruth did that year. “And in 1920, Babe Ruth hit .376 (fourth in the league – Speaker was second) with 54 home runs and 137 runs batted in. ”

Still quite possibly the greatest statistical season in sports history. Imagine someone hitting 130 home runs today and you just begin to approach what Ruth did that year.

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