Here is a post I made to another list a while back: A long time ago, I learned that, if you don't know the answer to a baseball trivia question, just say "Babe Ruth." There is a surprising probability you will be correct.
The longest complete game victory in World Series history was Babe Ruth's 12 inning pitching masterpiece that gave Boston the victory over Brooklyn in game 2 of the 1916 World series! How good a pitcher was Ruth? His nine shutouts in 1916 set an AL record for left-handers which would remain unmatched until Ron Guidry tied it in 1978. Ruth pitched 29⅔ innings consecutive scoreless innings in the World Series as a Boston pitcher, a record that would last until Whitey Ford broke it in 1961. He was clearly one of the best pitchers of all time, but more valuable to the Yankees as a slugger. Dan It is hard to imagine what Ruth could have done with modern training methods, or even if he just moderated his heavy smoking, eating and drinking (even in the dugout). Ruth on steroids? Incredible Hulk, move over. On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Walter Gilbert <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In the modern game, they'd have probably kept him in a pitching rotation, >> unfortunately. >> >> He was a southpaw, after all. :-\ > > He was a leftie, and he was a hell of a pitcher! I think he may still > have (or was it only very recently broken?) the record for consecutive > scoreless innings in the World Series. It's just that he was so good > a hitter that they couldn't afford to have him play once every four or > five days. > > Hey, it's pretty hard to compare what he did (either as a pitcher or > hitter) to today's game. He usually faced the same pitcher, no matter > how tired or "off" he was, for nine innings. No relievers (unless the > starter's arm had fallen off), no middle relievers, "set up men", > closers. Just one pitcher for the whole game. > > Still, what we can do is compare Ruth to his contemporaries, and he > still stands head and shoulders above the rest. > > cheers, > frank > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
