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

I think people look at old footage of basketball and how lame they look and translate that to every sport which isn't a fair comparison. "Because basketball in the 30's looks slow and lame, baseball must've been slow and lame."

There's no doubt people have gotten faster and jumped higher. The WR in the 100M dash was 10.2 in 1936 by Jesse Owens.

The progression of the 100M is interesting. It goes down. .01 about every 10-20 years from 1921 onwards to the early 60's.

Then it makes a giant leap in the late 60's and starts making more giant leaps from the 80's until now. The late 60's was the birth of PEDs on the sports scene...started with weightlifters, moved to football players and then sprinters and then all athletes.

I don't know how awesome Ruth would be today, but without drugs...human progression in sports isn't as great as some of you make it out to be. It's only been 80 years since Ruth...that's not a lot of time to get that much better in terms of evolution...it doesn't work like that. If Ruth had today's trainers and nutrition and took those "special vitamins" his ability would still be his ability and he'd adapt to the Bonds way.

But ability is skill. Skill doesn't get that much better in 80 years. All we have evolved is training, a little more advanced play, nutrition and of course, lots of drugs.