Thursday, June 1, 2023

Babe Ruth lying unconscious after running into a wall chasing a fly ball. He would regain consciousness 5 minutes later and get 2 more hits in the game. July 5, 1924.

 


15 comments:

  1. Can you imagine any of the modern players today hitting the wall. The do-gooders would be demanding the government step in and require all the players wear full body padding made to withstand a thermonuclear blast 100 yards away.

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    1. Bubble wrap society

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    2. Yes, they occasionally do. However, most walls are padded now days. Your point is moot.

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    3. They've got the warning track now, there's no excuse for modern players to run into the wall.

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    4. Let us not forget that he died in his early 50s, of cancer, but more likely as a result of his hard-living lifestyle.

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  2. Possibly so drunk he never even felt it.

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    1. Was thinking the same… he was a notorious boozer.

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    2. More power to him

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  3. Ruth lived up in Suffern, New York just over the Jersey border. He'd step off the Erie-Lackawanna train at Waldwick, where my first 10 years occurred in the 50's & 60's, and drink at the trackside tavern there.

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  4. Best baseball player bar none. Held a lot of pitching records until they decided to play him full time for his hitting ability. This all in spite of his love for life, drinking and chasing women. Imagine what he could have achieved if he took care of himself? Nah!

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    1. I agree, he'd of probably made it into the HOF as pitcher if they hadn't converted him to the field. I always thought the drinking was more him just mugging for the press, pretty hard to play at that level of excellence for that long a period if he was a drunk

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    2. Wrong, Toni.

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  5. Concussion? Never heard of it.

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  6. Anybody watch Biden* fall over again today? 81 million votes!

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