September 17, 2008
Bad Headline
I've seen this headline on an AP story twice tonight:
A-Rod passed the Babe for most seasons with 35 HRs
That's not true. The article has it right:
Alex Rodriguez homered to pass Babe Ruth and become the only player with 35 homers and 100 RBIs in 12 seasons, and the New York Yankees slowed the Chicago White Sox's pursuit of the AL Central crown with a 5-1 victory Wednesday night.
Ruth has twelve 35 home run seasons, but in one of those, 1922, he drove in 99 runs. Aaron had eleven 35 home run seasons and Bonds reached that mark 10 times.
Posted by David Pinto at
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This is such a phony artificial mark to pump up ARod. Every one of those years Ruth hit over 40 home runs. How many times has ARod done that? Eight. Thank you for playing. Call us in four years or however long it takes for ARod to pass Ruth's number of 40HR 100RBI seasons.
As a side note, you can never really compare anybody to Ruth because he was pitching in his first four years in the majors.