Whatcha think? Prince Fielder a Cub?

Your not a Cub fan from the day’s of Rick Reuschel.

Not as convinced he wouldn’t crack a starting lineup although it would be interesting if you had that time machine so we could see.

Cy Young? Any big stars before modern equipment and stadiums? Or before they were integrated with African American players? Then how about before Latin American players were integrated? When exactly is the time stars are meaningful? I think it’s silly to rate players of different eras the same. Which also means that players not using steroid are also judged unfairly in the 90’s/00’s. Ruth is the only player in all those stars you mentioned that was also a very good pitcher while hitting astronomically. I don’t think he would be a star of course now (without steriods and a beer after the game) but any player of that era would fall short of course. Athletes get stronger and faster and now have modern training methods with all the money in the game. It’s comparing apples and oranges.

Who says it was sheep testosterone that made him mysteriously ill in 1925? Ruth collapsed at the railroad station in Asheville because he had been on a tear for weeks. He was in the midst of breaking up with Helen, his first wife, and taking up with Clare, his second, and in the meantime screwing every willing woman he came across as the Yankees barnstormed north toward Opening Day. He was eating too much crap, drinking too much, fucking too much, sleeping too little, wearing himself out. He developed—it’s logical, isn’t it?—a stomach ulcer. Every detail relating to that barnstorming trip and his own train trip from Asheville to New York and the hospital points to ulcer, and so does the medical report from the hospital—not to mention the great raw scar wound in his belly after the operation.

So which is it? My assertion that he had an ulcer? Or that sheep testosterone made him sick? Or was it, as the gossiping old ballplayers liked to whisper, syphilis? You don’t cut into a man’s stomach to cure syphilis or, I assume, to counteract sheep testosterone.
Ballplayers, especially old ballplayers, are like old women gossiping over a cup of tea. They pass along rumors and hearsay as fact. Read Eldon Auker’s autobiography, which despite its charm and vivid recollections—the once-great Tommy Bridges as a pitiful drunk on Auker’s front lawn is one—passes along gossip he heard as factual information. We sportswriters do the same. And readers and reviewers and other sportswriters accept it and it becomes what Mark Twain called the petrified truth.

If Ruth did, in fact, take sheep testosterone, I’d bet my hat and ass that he didn’t take it to help him on the ballfield. He’d have taken it for the same reason Rafael Palmeiro took some other performance-enhancing substance: to have even more fun in bed.

linky

your statement that Ruth used testosterone as some way of disparaging his performance is bogus. By your own admission he used it once and apparently it did nothing positive for his playing. Case closed.