re: How would Babe Ruth fare in the steroid era?

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I'm not a baseball guy in any way, so this might be a dumb question but it's purely out of ignorance, because i honestly don't know. What kind of speeds were pitchers back in teh 20s getting up to?

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They were never able to really measure it. From what I've looked up since this thread started, there are measurements for Walter Johnson(faster pitcher of those days) at around 91 and also 99 with 2 different systems, but who really knows.

I do think we can just use a little logic to point out that over the past 100 years in virtually every aspect of every sport, we've gotten better. So the idea of throwing 99 almost 100 years ago just didn't seem plausible. Throw in they pitched entire games and on 3 day's rest, it's way more likely that day in and day out they were seeing much slower pitching, by a lot I'd think.