[Alberta's Child]

I agree with your general statement about segregation, but I think you are missing my point. How much of an impact would black pitchers have had back in Ruth's day when they've never constituted much more than 1% of the pitchers in big-league baseball even after the color barrier was broken?

I believe Bob Gibson and Ferguson Jenkins (an anomaly of sorts because he wasn't even an American) are the only black pitchers from the post-segregation age in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Lee Smith is probably the only black pitcher out there today who is a legitimate Hall of Fame candidate.

[KellyAdmirer]

If this whole black pitcher's argument held any water at all, then why didn't all the other hitters in Ruth's day hit 60 homers? Eh?

Oh, and by the way, can anyone please tell me how many homers the runner-up hit the year the Babe hit 59?

Babe Ruth DOMINATED his day and age. Barry Bonds doesn't even come close to anything like that. It's like counting Mariah Carey's number one hits and trying to say she has had as much impact as Elvis or the Beatles. Give me a break.

[NC28203]

>>>How much of an impact would black pitchers have had back in Ruth's day when they've never constituted much more than 1% of the pitchers in big-league baseball even after the color barrier was broken?

Would dark skinned Latin Americans like Pedro Martinez or Jose Contraras been able to play back in the segregated days? Just asking, I don't know. But an inclusion of dark skinned Latins might bring those numbers up.