When I think of BABE RUTH

[Appling]

When you think of Babe Ruth, which of his career stats first comes to mind?

* 60 homeruns in 1927?
* 714 career homeruns?
* 12 AL homerun titles?
* .690 career slugging average?
* .847 and .846 Slugging Pct. in sucessive seasons
* 177 Runs scored in 1921
* 457 Total Bases in 1921
* "Called homerun" in 1932 World Series?
* 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series
* 0.87 ERA in 31 innings of World Series play (1916 & 1918)
* Or something else?

[Sultan_1895-1948]

SA in '20 is at .849, fyi


I'll go with .690, closely followed by .342.

[Joltin' Joe]

Used to be 60 & 714 since I was a kid. But lately .690. That may be the most amazing stat in all of baseball.

[Blackout]

career 207 OPS+

[Appling]

SA in '20 is at .849, fyi

That must be another of those "recently corrected" stats -- modified long after I first learned something else -- like Lajoie's .422 BA in 1901 (corrected to .426); Cobb's lifetime BA of .367 (corrected to .366); or Walter Johnson strikeout total of 3508 (corrected to 3509).

[Sultan_1895-1948]

That must be another of those "recently corrected" stats -- modified long after I first learned something else -- like Lajoie's .422 BA in 1901 (corrected to .426); Cobb's lifetime BA of .367 (corrected to .366); or Walter Johnson strikeout total of 3508 (corrected to 3509).

Yup. They keep us on our toes. Johnson's SHO went from 113 to 110. How can there be that big of an error?

[yanks0714]

My ID tells you which one I think of.

[BoSox Rule]

60 in 1927.

[SamtheBravesFan]

714 home runs

[KCGHOST]

I don't think of any one statistic, just the overall magnitude of what he meant to the game.

[torez77]

I don't think of any one statistic, just the overall magnitude of what he meant to the game.

I totally agree. When I think of Ruth, I think of the greatest player of all time (IMO) and the most influential. It's hard to choose any one of his stats to think of. There's so many.

[west coast orange and black]

his 714 home runs jumps out to me.

when i was growing up, the homerun king had the biggest bragging rights.
for the longest time, that was ruth.

kinda like "world's fastest human" gets top billing over "world's best hurdler" and "shotput champion"

[johnny]

a true 'player' in every sense of the word

just joking.

i think that most people don't understand just how good a pitcher this man was. he was one of the dominent left handers in the game before he singlehandidly transitioned the game from deadball to liveball.
for good and for bad, he did it.

[Reed Johnson]

His 714 HR's

[scottmitchell74]

714 followed closely by .690.