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Don’t forget the Babe had at least 5 full years as a pretty good pitcher at 94-46. That could have easily been another 100 home runs, and he’d still be holding the record.

http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=121578#gameType=%27R%27&statType=2&sectionType=career&season=2014&level=%27ALL%27

Babe was an all around baseball player. Loved the game, loved the kids who came to see him, and was larger than life to a lot of folks.

I liked Aaron up until this stupid racist remark from him. To me, now - any accomplishment he may have done is superseded by this appallingly stupid comment. If he felt that way all along, and managed to keep it to himself, this would ALSO have been a good time to exercise a lock on his tongue.

They've done analysis of Babe's power, and taking into consideration of just how HUGE some of the parks were, like the Polo Grounds, they estimate that he would have hit WAY more homers by that standard alone.

There's even a book called: The Year Babe Ruth hit 100 Home runs.

What would have been an easy HR blast going 450 ft, became a fieldable ball.

Every old timer, from MLB, to the Negro leagues said that they've never seen ANYONE hit a ball has hard as the Babe.

And these are guys who lived to see Aaron and Mantle play.

Back to the OP, I knew Aaron hated whites, but I didn't know he exclusively blamed republicans.

Who the hell did he think was in the stands in Atlanta during his career?

I wager it was 85% democrats. Black or white.

And it wasn't "republicans" writing those nasty letters to him, either.