[sixfour210]

Originally posted by holyroller
One key difference here, maybe you aren't noticing it, is that while in Ruth's day only white players could play in the major leagues, we have thankfully left that behind and, theoreticaly anyway, ballplayers can be judged solely on their skills and not on their race. Yet you talk about Barry Bonds being the best black player and he's better than the best white player and so on and so forth. Maybe it's too subtle for you, but it's a pretty big difference in my eyes.

But you did say comparing white players to white players was racist. every time you look at Babe Ruth's statistics, they are giving you a racist viewpoint, according to what you said. I compare blacks to blacks and whites to whites and so forth because that's the only way to give us any sort of glimpse as to what Babe Ruth was up against. He didn't play against blacks and put up incredible numbers. What if Barry Bonds didn't play against whites or even if he didn't play against blacks or latinos? What then?


Okay then, since you seem to know, how much should we deduct from Ruth's stats? 10 percent? 20 percent? 30 percent? 75? Tell us. Enlighten us.

We don't know. And that's not what I'm out here to find out. I am here to find out why people think Babe Ruth was some kind of immortal being and why a black person couldn't have risen to such a height? I know you said all colors but that includes black people. I'm not interested as to why Indians could not be as good as Ruth or Turks or even other whites. I want to know why black people, who have proven they can be just as good and better than white people throught the history they have been in the game, could not, in a million years, play at the level Babe Ruth was at? Answer me that question.