Height does mean power, right? The Mick was built like an NFL running back. His lower body was massive and the way he coiled up, especially from the left side, he generated great torque when he unwound. He was one of those guys who I loved to watch hit because even when he struck out it was exciting to watch.

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Ruth's feet were really close together to start.

there was some modern era guy who had a similar stance but the name is escaping me

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Ichiro's feet are pretty close

Also, Youkilis

Ichiro eerily similar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLG2pMMjxW8

This really is cool.

I love it when Ruth got jammed, thought he cracked it near the handle, flipped it, caught the barrel and checked it by hitting it on the plate. He looked cool doing this. Then he got jammed a little later and shook the bees out of his left hand. And him handing the bat to Gehrig when he was done. Awesome to see this.

And like you guys said, is approach at the plate. That long stride and perfect swing. You can feel the power that he had while watching it.

I mean his approach was to destroy that baseball every time.

Andre Dawson had a stance where his feet were close together when he was with the Cubs. He did change his stance a few times but always wanted the ability to coil his lower half and unload as he came forward. Stan the Man really uncoiled as well.

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Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

I wonder if today someone would have "corrected" Ruth's stance. I once read that John McGraw was about to correct Mel Ott's stance before watching him hit BP, after which he said, "Do whatever the hell you want if you hit like that."

When you think about it, three of the greatest hitters in baseball history had those kinds of swings, Ruth, Williams, and Musial. I think that the reason why there were so few others is that they didn't have the ability to stay balanced through the swing while these guys could.

Two other great hitters from the left side also hit pretty much that way, Ichiro and Pete Rose.

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Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

There have been all kinds of guys with weird hitches and strange stances who hit the shit out of the ball. To make a statement like "that swing wouldn't play today" is just fucking stupid. That swing won't play today for you or for your kid or probably for the bum you're scouting, and it wouldn't have played for any of you in 1960 or 1940 or 1910. But those swings/stances did play for Babe Ruth and Vlad Guerrero in the time they played and they would play for them in any other time.

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Not really

Not really

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Not really

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC7i4D_GSGY

Play ball with Babe Ruth:Fancy curves

-The Babe teaches hot chicks baseball
-The Babe and Ichiro's swings are clones

Ruth was a skinny- fat guy in his youth with small shoulders, chest and pipe cleaners for arms.. he morphed into a fat guy with skinny arms n legs

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Do these guys realize how fucking stupid they sound when they say stuff like this. There's probably nobody in the big leagues right now that throws harder than Bob Feller. And let's not even talk about the fact they were throwing off a fucking tower.

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Aubrey Huff is pretty stupid in general.

He has the name of a porn star. A female porn star.

Also, he's a journeyman who hit .275 for his career, but I'm sure he could handle today's pitching better than Williams or Ruth.

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This is what started it. Then people came back with advanced stats showing how much better Machado is and he was off to the races

My God!

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You are absolutely correct. And in addition to the mound, you had the fucking "stuff" that they loaded onto the ball was also a huge factor. Their balls MOVED like nothing around like now. As a pitching coach and teacher of pitching I absolutely know how a doctored ball can influence the movement of the ball. And while pitchers today are bigger and throw harder than earlier pitchers, pitchers back then were better in their art than today's guys are. And if you were a hitter back in those days , I think that you'd have a field day hitting the straight shit that today's pitchers throw.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip