[vikzilla]

Ruth didn't juice, but he did play during the segregation era.

What does that have to do with the number of home runs he hit during his career?

I think that means he didn't play against the best players of his time.

You would argue that he did?

I love the Babe, but the previous poster makes an excellent point.

[Alberta's Child]

See #83. The poster did NOT make an excellent point. How can you make the case that Ruth's numbers -- in and of themselves, not in comparison to other players of his era -- would have been different in an integrated environment, when there have NEVER been more than a handful of black pitchers in big-league baseball even today (60 years after the color barrier had been broken).

That's sort of like saying that Wayne Gretzky's NHL record of 92 goals in a single season is somehow tainted because there were no Mexican-American players in the NHL back in the 1980s. Well, OK -- that's true . . . but it's not like there are a ton of them in the NHL today, either!