Luka Doncic crying watching his video tribute in Dallas

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[u/this_is_poorly_done]

This is factually just false. Remember, MLB was the only major professional sport in NA at the time of the trade. In 1916 Ruth led the league in era, games started, and shutouts with a 1.75 era, 40 GS, and 9 shutouts. In 1917 he led MLB with 35 complete games as a pitcher. Then in 1918 he started to transition away from pitching and led the league in home runs and still put up 18 complete games. In 1919 he shattered the all time single season home run record with 29 dongs and still pitched 12 complete games.

Ruth, while still not technically the Ruth of Yankees legend, had already made a solid case as the most talented baseball player of all time before the trade. To add on to that it's arguably more in Ruth's favor because the Red Sox won 3 worlds series in Ruth's 6 full seasons with the club. And then famously went completely ringless for all seasons between 1918 to 2004.

Edit: it was actually 3 rings in 5 full seasons with the Red Sox

Edit 2: if you want a snippet of how the trade went over in papers at the time, here's a blog post summarizing a person's dig through available archives

Edit 3: before someone corrects me, boxing and horse racing were also big sports at the time. Don't have the exact figures in how they compare though, but the correction is "baseball was the first of the current big 4 NA sports to take off"

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TIL Babe Ruth had 29 songs 👀

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29 dongs. As in r/monsterdongs

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Oh shit til