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Originally Posted by Ferdinand
While I have no problem admitting Speaker as being one of the very best at the time, I really think what Cobb did went beyond numbers. How could Tris bunt compared to Cobb? Cobb ruled the bases and forced countless errors on his opponents part.
I just don't see where the Babe was so much more dominant beside the case of smashing homeruns and that was mostly just coming out of the dead-ball era. Rogers Hornsby or Lou Gehrig or George Sisler or were no slouches themselves.
Do you know the amount of stat records they both held at their retirements?
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Not breaking your chops but how would you possibly know any of this?
You do understand that hitting home runs is a much more valuble skill than bunting or stealing bases. When you hit home runs you just trot around the bases and it does not matter what your opponents do.
And it seemed that Ruth was the only one coming out of the deadball era when he became a full time outfielder being that he was hitting more HR's than teams and breaking rbi, runs scored, OBP, SLG records