re: Watch Babe Ruth play baseball in 1920

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I have a signed photo of Babe Ruth that’s been in my family forever. I have no idea what it’s worth, but it’s hanging in my oldest son’s bedroom

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Probably still has dna on it. Take it to a lab. Clone the fricker. Raise the Babe Ruth clone and put him in travel ball. He’ll have to be named Braxton. Let’s find out.

There’s been plenty of recent fat fricks in MLB.

Cool video.

That last bit following the boys looking for the ball and then the cut to a close up angle of them finding it looked like a staged movie or something though.

Or someone had motion sensor Ring camera in 1920.

George Ruth in 1920 was a world class athlete without an ounce of fat on him. Fast forward him to 2026 with modern training and nutrition and priorities and preparation and even figuring in a little extracurricular activities … players today aren’t exactly celibate or temperance workers … and he probably isn’t matching his exact stats from back then but he’s absolutely going to be among the elite of the elite.

Just like if you transported Shoehi Ohtani back to 1905, pre-Ruth, into the dead ball era. He’s probably going to hit 5 home runs if he’s lucky because not only were the baseballs dead back then, they would try to use one baseball for an entire game, the expectation is that people would throw them back if they went into the stands. And by the end of the game you are talking about a black, soft, misshapen blob dripping with tobacco juice. Plus the fences were sometimes 500 feet away.

But Ohtani would hit .400 and be among the elite of the elite.

And this has nothing to do with the thread but Babe’s teammate Lou Gehrig was so freaking ripped physically that he was actually summoned to Hollywood to do a screen test to become the new Tarzan. Imagine him presented with 21st century training methods.

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Would be lucky to hit .100 in today’s game

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Was around 6’2 215 in the damn 1920s. Insane bat speed. His game absolutely would have tracked.

Idiotic comment.

Look at photos of Honus Wagner. He probably looks heavy to some eyes but that’s misleading. Dude was literally all chest, like a 60-inch plus chest. Almost like he was misshapen.

He’s someone else from the old days who’d excel today. He actually trained during the off-season with primitive weights he made. He’d be an absolute gym rat today.

Exactly. There will never be another Ruth. Would he be the same player in today’s game? Who cares. He hit more HRs than entire teams in numerous seasons. Pitchers would get fined for throwing him strikes. Most of his homers were well outside the zone. He didn’t train, ate like shite and during his days player appearances were mandatory. So after a double header in July there’s no ice bath and massage it’s straight to some BS sponsor party. Then of course the after party. The guy was an animal.

Don’t forget the stories … pretty much documented … where he’d take on entire whorehouses and “hit a home run” with his lower “bat” LOL 20 or 30 times in one night.

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Would be lucky to hit .100 in today’s game

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Give Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey all the modern training, nutrition, recovery protocols, supplements, steroids, hGH, etc that athletes today are on and and they would be absolute savages.

These guys literally trained on milk, beer, and hot dogs. They had nothing that modern day athletes have and their equipment was primitive as well. Imagine Bobby Jones juiced to the gills like Tiger was with modern day clubs.