Man they had giant hitches in their swings. That shit wouldn’t play today.

Babe was all hitch with those feet close together.

I think they'd both adjust fine, though.

I love how they shared a bat.

Yeah, that was.

Who the hell was throwing BP? Lucas Giolito? Hit the plate for Christ's sake.

Gehrig makes the Babe look small.

Man they had giant hitches in their swings. That shit wouldn’t play today.

Babe Ruth was 2 inches taller than Gehirg, Ruth was 6'2" and Gehrig was 6'0". Ruth also had a huge upper body, I think he made Gehrig look pretty small.

Ever wonder, if Lou Gehrig never became famous, what would they call Lou Gehrig's disease? Crazy

Did you see his back, forearms, and legs? He made the Babe look small. Edit: Or smaller.

Look, I'm three inches taller than Mickey Mantle was.....

Gehrig was an impressive athlete but Ruth's upper body dwarfed Gehrig's.

Yeah, Kyler Murray plays today, not Babe Ruth.

What the fuck are you butt hurt fuckin retards talking about. Leave your MAGA hats out of this. Good god grow the fuck up.

Seems like you're the one who is butthurt. You say idiotic stuff and then get angry when it gets pointed out. What's retarded is calling Adam Engel a Hall of Famer and saying Ruth and Gehrig couldn't play today.

Babe Ruth was 2 inches taller than Gehirg, Ruth was 6'2" and Gehrig was 6'0". Ruth also had a huge upper body, I think he made Gehrig look pretty small.

What the fuck are you butt hurt fuckin retards talking about. Leave your MAGA hats out of this. Good god grow the fuck up.

Seems like you're the one who is butthurt. You say idiotic stuff and then get angry when it gets pointed out. What's retarded is calling Adam Engel a Hall of Famer and saying Ruth and Gehrig couldn't play today.

Pete Gray could easily play Fortnight today. (In truth, I don't even know what Fortnight is.)

Before you bash him, hear me out. In fourth grade, I got caught crying in the liberry when I was reading The Pete Gray Story and I got to the part where the dual-armed players returned from beating Russia or whatevs and the greedy owners sent Pete--the fastest man in the bigs!--back down. Anyway, someone asked me what the tears were for, and I was like, "I have an eye condition," and I had to maintain the lie for about two more years.

Anyway, Gray was a natural right-hander who chose, for a variety of reasons, to bat, throw, and catch lefty.

I play in a fantasy baseball league that is undoubtedly the longest continuously running league in existence. It's been going since the mid-80s. I guess Dan Okrent and his friends invented Rotisserie baseball in New York around the same time this league got started. Obviously there were no Yahoo or ESPN leagues at the time. The scoring and categories had to be made up. I believe a guy named Dave Weisbecker created our scoring system. There are a bunch of arcane rules and only Friday games count (with Saturday as a backup if the guy didn't play on Friday).

Anyway, one year I had Jim Abbott on my team. He was probably my fourth option as a starter. I didn't really like him because strikeouts are a key category in our league and there was a bonus for 10 strikeouts. You wanted guys like Randy Johnson or Pedro, not Jim Abbott.

We used to meet at Quencher's on Thursday nights to turn in our lineups. One Thursday during a drunken discussion I happened to say, "I don't like Jim Abbott. He's only got one hand." That earned me the nickname, "The Minister of Sensitivity". Abbott took his revenge against me though, as he was sitting on my bench the Saturday night he tossed his no-hitter.

He had a good year or two and was decent for a few others. The way he started, I thought he was gonna be a star. My brother sold baseball cards at the time and Abbott was the card that kids wanted most.

Abbott is a guy whose life shows you what making good decisions can do. At some point, he chose to throw as a lefty, and, while his arm kinda fell off after a couple good seasons and he was not a Hall of Famer, he had a good college career and ten years in the Bigs. What if he decided to throw righty? Who knows what would have happened in the great Slot Machine of Life. Maybe he doesn't even make his high school team. Maybe he becomes a philosophy professor. Maybe he becomes something more hands-on, like a fluffer. In any case, it looks like he made the right decision. Once again, it just goes to show you how life is made by the decisions we make.

Thus, I hope that tonight, Mr. Abbott puts his hands together not for the Patriots or Rams or Shockers or Cyclones (I think the Wichita State chicks are taking on the Iowa State chicks in hoops tonight) or any other team, but for an individual--an individual named Jim Abbott. I know I will be applauding him with vim and vigor.

Gehrig

The strident sports section in Jacobin recently fisked Gehrig's political beliefs and provided clear suggestive evidence that linked other German-Americans to anti-Semitism. We're not just talking about your father's old-fashioned working class Archie Bunkerism here but actual praxis, the kind that still creates Jewish ghettoes in places like Manhattan and Northbrook and makes Jews act in ways that can only be classified as annoying and weird. Fine, go ahead and lionize Gehrig and Gehringer and H. Greenberg and Esteban German and the German-American bundists whose combined and generational KKK-ery has gummed up the works for half-Jews for decades and are attempting to re-appropriate the forces of corporate culture in order to dictate to the working classes who the real enemies (read: Jews) are. Go right ahead and put on some Wagner and turn it up to eleven. How could anyone criticize you for doing so? It's just music. And baseball.