re: Least Naturally Athletic Person to Have the Best Career in Sports

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babe ruth

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I initially thought this, but he played so many position and had such a bad lifestyle that he had to be a natural athlete to overcome it.

For those that say babe Ruth, I don't think you could be more incorrect. Good enough to be a major league pitcher but ends up being one of the best hitters of all time. Gonna say he was pretty naturally athletic. Might not have been a physical specimen but clearly an athlete

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Least Naturally Athletic Person to Have the Best Career in Sports
babe ruth

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I think its incredible that anyone would think that Ruth was not athletic.

He was the greatest home run hitter of his era (and maybe any era) with the Yankees (when he hit his 600th home run the second player on the list had ~350), and Ruth had a career batting average of .342, the 9th highest average of all time.

And before he was an all-time great hitter for the Yankees, he was an all-star pitcher with the Bosox. He pitched 29 2/3 straight scoreless innings in the world series, which broke Christy Mathewson's record, and stood until Whitey Ford broke it in 1961.

The only way anyone would say Ruth was not athletic is to focus only on his un-athletic silhouette, and ignore his extraordinary athletic accomplishments.