Yep he’s one of the all time greats.
In some of his big years, Babe hit more home runs than some other entire teams, from what I heard.
This helps create debates among baseball fans, which go endlessly. We know that Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron hit more homers than the Babe. But Babe probably had a bigger impact on the game than either of these others. Based on the numbers, only these three hit over 700 home runs, with Alex Rodriguez not quite getting there as he finished his career with 696.
Then people bring up how Babe played only day games, whereas players nowadays have to cope with coast to coast travel across times zones, day games following overnight travel or night games, facing specialized relief pitchers, etc. which the Babe never confronted.
He singlehandedly saved baseball, coming out of the Black Sox scandal.
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Excellent. I would like to add my two farthings - Aaron had many more at bats (12,364) than the Bambino did, (Ruth 8,399) and many of Ruth’s homers came as he was pitching during those early seasons...
#5 Alex Rodriguez not quite getting there as he finished his career with 696.
He has easily surpassed the others in girlfriends....