[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.

[Alberta's Child]

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

24.

Ruth's most remarkable single-season performance was not his 60 home runs. When he hit 60 in 1927, he broke the record of 59 that he had set six years earlier. His 59 in 1921 broke his previous record of 54 from the previous season. The 54 home runs in 1920 was probably the most astonishing of them all, since they shattered his 29-HR mark from 1919 by such a wide margin.

It's also worth noting that Ruth became baseball's all-time career home run king when he hit just his 139th career home run during the 1921 season. When you look at his 714 in that context, it is truly amazing.