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Admin	Baseball Question Posted : 26 Dec, 2010 05:34 PM Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth? Explain your answer. Post Reply
View Profile History	Baseball Question Posted : 26 Dec, 2010 05:48 PM I got to go with the Babe. After almost 50 years still the most reconizeable name in sports. Interesting side note about Ty Cobb...is he supposely received Jesus as his Lord and savior on his death bed and this is a man who suppsely killed a man. Ty was pretty ruthless in his day. Babe Ruth on the other hand not sure, we`ll let God be the judge. I sure would like to meet him in heaven some day. Post Reply
View Profile History	Baseball Question Posted : 27 Dec, 2010 05:23 AM Babe Ruth Like father-Like son------- He would be my dad's pick. Never been a big fan of baseball myself, but I like his candy bar!:eat: :ROFL: chevy Post Reply
View Profile History	Baseball Question Posted : 27 Dec, 2010 04:20 PM See, I'm a Ty Cobb girl myself. He played the game the way it was intended to be played. As individual performance within a team setting (not mano-y-mano). Finesse. Style. Thinking and strategy. The power game of Babe Ruth takes a lot of the fun out of the game. Cobb could hit homers - one day in batting practice, he proved it. Knocked one out of the park after another. But he grew bored. He was a right royal son-of-a-gun, but he played a *beautiful* game. Post Reply
View Profile History	Baseball Question Posted : 29 Dec, 2010 06:03 AM MountainLassie, I agree that Cobb is certainly one of the best ballplayers ever. I disagree with your assessment that Cobb played the game: ��within a team setting (not mano-y-mano). Finesse. Style. Thinking and strategy. � Cobb was very much �mano-a-mano��to the point of actually fighting. He was renown for his attacking the game and thinking it as a �war� to be won. He was also very much a racist and while certainly graceful I would not use the word finesse when describing Cobb. Babe Ruth is no better as a Role Model either. Now Lou Gehrig! There was a Role Model and most certainly the word Style and Finesse and CLASS and the epitome of a �Team Player�. All three are in the Hall of Fame and deservingly so. Post Reply
View Profile History	Baseball Question Posted : 29 Dec, 2010 04:42 PM Finesse applied to the way he played the game, not to himself as a person. He was a right royal [butthead] of a man. But a great player. I'd throw Cal Ripken Jr into your Hall of Fame, too, Arch. Post Reply
View Profile History	Baseball Question Posted : 29 Dec, 2010 07:49 PM Now you're Talkin' Cal Ripken Jr.! Old school class and style and grace and ethics. My idea of the "perfect ball player". Barry Who? Post Reply
View Profile History	Baseball Question Posted : 29 Dec, 2010 07:58 PM We do not mention this name. Post Reply