Year AVG OBP SLG Babe Ruth 1920 .376 .532 .847 Babe Ruth 1921 .378 .512 .846 Babe Ruth 1923 .393 .545 .764 Babe Ruth 1924 .378 .513 .739 Babe Ruth 1926 .372 .516 .737 Babe Ruth 1927 .356 .486 .772 Babe Ruth 1930 .359 .493 .732 Rogers Hornsby 1925 .403 .489 .756 Ted Williams 1941 .406 .553 .735 Ted Williams 1957 .388 .526 .731 Barry Bonds 2002 .370 .582 .799 Barry Bonds 2004 .362 .609 .812Of Ruth's seven qualified seasons, six of them came in an eight-year span!
Some other Ruth-related tweets:
"Babe Ruth hit 71 HR over the span of 162 games from July 24, 1927 to July 30, 1928."
"Babe Ruth maintained a .401 batting average over the span of 255 games from April 24, 1923 to August 8, 1924."
"Babe Ruth would have to resurrect, return to baseball, and go 0 for 1,147 for his slugging percentage to drop below Barry Bonds's .6069."
4 comments:
Also amazing is Ted doing it 16 seasons apart.
Babe Ruth spent a few seasons as we know with less than 100 AB's.
Williams of course spent a few of his best years serving his country.
Eliminate those 2 facts and that pair of players would own the MLB record books for hitting for eternity.....
I love that I can still be amazed and impressed by Babe stats. Thanks, Allan.
Apropos of Babe Ruth, it sounds like some photos of his days in Providence in 1914 were destroyed in a house fire yesterday.
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