By special request today, I post up a 1977 "Turn Back the Clock" card celebrating the 50th anniversary of Babe Ruth and his 60 home runs, something appropriate for 2022 as Aaron Judge climbs up the A.L. all-time season list:
As we all know, Ruth
topped what many thought was his own record of 59 home runs in 1921 with
60 in 1927, putting in a season of the ages, scoring 158 runs, driving
in 165, hitting .356 and slugging .772 for the "Murderer's Row" champion
Yankee team that won 110 games and is still regarded as one of the
all-time best teams.
The man was mythical, playing so far
above and beyond his contemporaries that it made his arguably the most
famous person on earth, let alone in America.
I'm not a fan of
all this talk today diminishing all that Ruth did over his career, as I
believe the entire concept of "context" has been lost on those that
like to say things like "...if he played today...".
