Good day everyone!
Today
on the blog something special from my "Whole Nine" set released a
couple of years ago, the special insert, a "long lost" 1933 DeLong card
for the great, if not THE greatest, Babe Ruth:
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One
of my favorite sets of all-time, the DeLong set of 1933 did not feature
the game's biggest star for some reason, and I thought it's make a fun
insert/extra for the custom set that I put a ton of work into.
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...".
2800+ hits, 714 homers, 2174 runs scored and 2214 runs batted in, all accomplished in only 8399 at-bats.
To
put that into context, if you gave him another HALF a career of
at-bats, 4000 or so, that would match the great Hank Aaron's at-bat
total, so what would Ruth's numbers be then?
Just something fun to think about.
And
let us not forget a 94-46 record as a pitcher, with a 2.28 ERA over 163
games, including two 20-win seasons and an ERA title in 1916 with 1.75
including nine shutouts.
Just ridiculous. Greatest ever in my book.
