Wonder why MLB does not have a Babe Ruth day?

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Originally posted by Three Bagger:
That's why Ruth was the greatest player of all time and it's a joke to even consider someone like Bonds as some people were doing the last few years of his career. Ruth was the best lefty in baseball at the time the switch to permanant outfielder began. It would have been like taking Steve Carleton and converting him to a hitter after an early Cy Young award. Incredible, that Barrow had the guts to do the move. Of course Ruth was totally on board as he loved to play everyday. By the second year as he played outfield more and more he actually refused to pitch at one point.

What is really incredible is that in 1918, Ruth tied for the HR lead with eleven as still basically a starting pitcher as well as a parttime outfielder and winning thirteen games. When he first broke the HR record in 1919, he still won nine games as a pitcher.

Ruth still made several starts as a pitcher with his last as late as 1933 and won them all, pitching a complete game, fourteen years since he had done much pitching at all.

Winning 94 games and hitting 714 HRs with a .342 lifetime average he is by far the greates player of all time. Did I also mention he STOLE HOME TEN TIMES! He could do it all.

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Originally posted by Bear:
April 27 has been declared Babe Ruth Day for every organized baseball league.

The first year, 1947.

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Originally posted by Coach Milburn:

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Originally posted by Bear:
April 27 has been declared Babe Ruth Day for every organized baseball league.

The first year, 1947.

Yes, I was aware that April 27, 1947 was his day.

But, is just me or does it seem like MLB does not publicize April 27th that much as Babe Ruth Day?

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Jackie Robinson Was so Important, the Cincinnati Reds Honor Him Twice
By Cliff Eastham
(Reds Featured Columnist) on April 16, 2010


Another Jackie Robinson Day in the MLB has come and gone.

Wait a minute, it is still going.

That's right, it is such an awesome dealie that the Cincinnati Reds get to do it twice. Since the Pittsburgh Pirates were off yesterday, the Reds get to wear their stylish No. 42's again tonight.

I wrote an article for Bleacher Report last year throwing my two cents worth of opinion on the over-celebrated status of the event.

I guess Jackie Robinson must be the most important player to ever play the game. No Babe Ruth day, no Lou Gehrig day, no Hank Aaron day.

First of all let me say that I am not playing a "race card." I have no racist bones in my old school body. Not one!

He was a very good, perhaps great player. But does the baseball world have to stop every year on Tax Day to re-celebrate the coming of Jackie Roosevelt Robinson?

Haven't we done enough already? He was the first Rookie of the Year and in the 1980s they actually changed the name of the award to "The Jackie Robinson Award."

Every year all the players in the league have to don a uniform with no name on it and the number "42" on it. Wouldn't a baseball sized patch do the trick? Come on, whats the deal?

And now, we Reds fans have to put up with it twice. Once isn't enough, no sir, we must do it twice. It is difficult to watch a game on TV with everybody parading around with the same number.

I have a question for you hard core fans. His number was retired by the entire league, so why does Mariano Rivera get to be the only player in baseball to wear it on days other than Tax Day?

I know the hoopla surrounds the fact that he was the "first" African-American player to be accepted, as it were. You did know he wasn't the first "player of color" to play in MLB, yes?

Have the statisticians gone on overtime yet to figure out who the different career leaders are on Jackie Robinson Day? Just askin'.

Robinson played only 10 years in the major leagues, but that is okay. Works for him, but not Ralph Kiner.

Oh yeah, Kiner is in the Hall of Fame, but I have seen articles on here that would suggest he is undeserving. His OBP is only four or five points below Robinson.

I asked before and I will ask again. Who was the first Latin-American player to play in the MLB, and why are we not honoring him?

Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black player in MLB. He played his first game on May 1, 1884 as a member of Toledo of the American Association.

Where is the love? Ever heard of him, be honest?

Enough is enough! All the excessive celebration of Robinson's birthday diminishes all of the accomplishments of the other great players in the game's history. Was he being the first accepted black player bigger than all of Babe Ruth's accomplishments? Me thinks not.

Frank Robinson, Vada Pinson, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays all had to endure hardships of "white" America when they were playing in the major leagues and being forced to eat on the bus while the white guys ate in the restaurants.

I have said enough, and I am sure the supporters of this great holiday will begin lambasting me as soon as this hits the press (or screen or whatever).