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Posted on 7/21/24 at 8:58 am to Joe Dimaggio
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Babe Ruth & Gretzky are the only two athletes that I can think of that came along and revolutionized their sport.
Lawrence Taylor. The modern offense we have today came about because of the way he played defense.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 9:27 am to Upperdecker
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Babe Ruth & Gretzky are the only two athletes that I can think of that came along and revolutionized their sport.
Tiger
Is this sarcasm ?
Babe Ruth came along and was hitting more home runs than most teams.
Gretzky the same in hockey shattering records.
What the hell did Tiger do to revolutionize golf ?
Posted on 7/21/24 at 10:14 am to LSUtwolves
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I mean MLB started in 1903 so revolutionizing the sport ten years after the league started isn’t that wild
I never knew baseball didn’t exist until the MLB created the World Series.
Posted on 7/21/24 at 2:15 pm to Joe Dimaggio
Cocaine helped him with the studying.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 8:42 am to Joe Dimaggio
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What the hell did Tiger do to revolutionize golf ?
HIt a pitching wedge 190 to the pin and stay #1 for 13 years
Posted on 7/22/24 at 1:29 pm to Upperdecker
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Babe Ruth & Gretzky are the only two athletes that I can think of that came along and revolutionized their sport.
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Tiger
This is borderline semantics but I would argue he revolutionized the game and not the sport of golf. Brought a whole new level of interest to the casual fan, responsible for the boom in golf course construction tournament purses, and became a cultural icon.
As for the sport, he was certainly the greatest of his generation and arguably all time, but he didn't destroy any records in the way Ruth and Gretzky did.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 5:07 pm to Joe Dimaggio
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What the hell did Tiger do to revolutionize golf ?
They literally lengthened courses (most notably Augusta) and decreased the size of fairways to “Tiger Proof” some courses so he couldn’t run away with so many tournaments.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 11:11 am to Joe Dimaggio
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What the hell did Tiger do to revolutionize golf ?
Good lord lol
Posted on 7/23/24 at 3:25 pm to Joe Dimaggio
I got to see him score a goal in person against the Stars when he was with the Rangers. Our seats were behind the goal in the upper deck. It was a great view I'd never had before that game. You could see guys break open on the ice. Usually sat closer to the ice, but those tickets were all we could get way beforehand. That seat was much better than the 2nd row seats to the side of one goal we had once.
Posted on 7/23/24 at 11:47 pm to TigerLifer18
Posted on 7/24/24 at 2:05 am to Tiger in NY
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HIt a pitching wedge 190 to the pin and stay #1 for 13 years
If you hood a 9 iron down it can be as long as the angle that it’s hooded to.
But new technology with clubs and balls made for all golfers hitting the ball farther. I saw 14 year old kids hitting 300 yard drives easily in that era.
To compare his hitting length with players hitting wood headed woods and the old blade irons isn’t a good comparison. Plus the balls were made different. The ones I started with were wound with rubber bands.
Different times, but what the old guys did for little money paved the way for him to sign a a multimillion dollar endorsement contract before he ever swung a club professionally.
But he was good and what the sport needed at the time since the older golfers were, well, getting old.
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