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Galt also believes movies were born in 1972 and everything before then is non-existent.

It's nonsense to say that players in ruths era weren't highly conditioned athletes. These were guys who made minimal salaries and didnt only play during the regular season but spent the entire off season traveling the country and playing exhibition games in states that didn't have teams. It wasnt just the lower dregs of the MLB but people like ruth, cobb, speaker, alexander, lajoie, etc. Ruth's image of being a fat slob is burned into peoples minds just as the fat elvis is for most, thats what they see when they think ruth, elvis.

The argument that the era was full of crap pitchers is also nonsense, this era is full of crap pitchers cause of expanision the talent is stretched like a rubberband.

And even if you take the argument that ruths era had mediocore pitching then why was Ruth the only one putting up such numbers? Ruth didnt just hit homers he had a lifetime BA of 342.

Its naturally unfair to compare the eras, its like comparing a heavyweight of Jack Dempsy's era when heavyweights mostly weighed in around the 170-190 mark to the heavyweights of today who weigh in at 230-260.

But to dismiss them is also unfair.

And the fact he was a great pitcher is still a valid argument, when Bonds pitches 27 scoreless world series innings, come back then.