And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
ReplyDeleteBubble wrap society
DeleteYes, they occasionally do. However, most walls are padded now days. Your point is moot.
DeleteThey've got the warning track now, there's no excuse for modern players to run into the wall.
DeleteLet us not forget that he died in his early 50s, of cancer, but more likely as a result of his hard-living lifestyle.
DeletePossibly so drunk he never even felt it.
ReplyDeleteWas thinking the same… he was a notorious boozer.
DeleteMore power to him
DeleteCool history
ReplyDeleteRuth 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.
ReplyDeleteBest 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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
DeleteWrong, Toni.
DeleteConcussion? Never heard of it.
ReplyDeleteAnybody watch Biden* fall over again today? 81 million votes!
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