I once read that no one, including Hank Aaron, hit as many homers as a percentage of times at bat. It wasn’t even close.
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.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoruth.shtml
(Bambino quotes)
Probably his most famous,”What the hell has Hoover got to do with it (his contract being bigger than the Presidents)? Besides, I had a better year than he did.”
Babe Ruth’s secret was lots of beer, cigars, women and not working out too much.
Ruth hit 54 homers in 1920, his first year with the Yanks. The two major leagues had a total of 630 that year!