Very nice. I looked up Gehrig's numbers today after thinking about the Final Four vote....video game numbers. Unreal.
The unfortunate part is you are probably looking at a 3,000 hit guy, 40 or 50 more home runs and 200 or 300 more games tacked onto his streak if he doesn't come down with that terrible disease.
Yeah......Not the same health wise, but I think about Williams' & Dimaggio's time lost due to the armed forces too....
Nice. Wore my Gehrig jersey today. And the old-timey Yankees cap with the short brim. People love the cap.
Yeah, those caps are cool.I've be riling up some old timers at another site on the "final four" ASG voting. I think Jeter belongs in the top four Yankees ever, despite the crazy stupid numbers put up by Ruth/Gehrig/Dimaggio/Mantle.There's also Berra and Mariano too......truth is there's no really good answer, and if you go on #'s alone, those four deserve it.
I'm not a numbers guy like you, but I look at Ruth and Gehrig and, what they did in an un-aided manner, is just insane. They just stepped up, and knocked the shit out of everything. Stunning. No excuses.
Exactly. But, the competition they were playing against built skyscrapers in the offseason, waited in line to eat soup, and like had tuberculosis. Someone from this era is worthy.But the problem is they were just soooo good.
on that point big four greatest living ballplayers bench, mays , aaron , koufax.................. does bench really belong over berra, robinson, clemens, maddux,bonds,rose,schmidt even piazza's one dimensional hitting numbers are out of sight.
JOE DIMAGGIO was a tremendous ball player could do it all.and #'s like stated due to war were hurt overall...as a person he was prickly,cheap,and lived off anyones dime 'free rooms.dinners,suits tailored for him'his name attached meant something to people ,his persona being dressed and groomed to the 9's was admirable for his era.he signed nothing unless $$$ was attached.he had bad relationship with his son,marilyn Monroe hurt him even tho he respected her well after her death..i read 2 books on him and he was painted exactly as I posted here plus more I didn't write here.i know someone who knew him and this guy was mentioned in the book as well personally,,joe signed his book.he said he was tough guy to get close too..people loved to shake his hand tho...
i think he said now i'll see Marilyn again at the time of his death.... i also heard his people literally had him signing autographs till his last breath...
iconic shot of a legend