what pitcher faced babe ruth and mickey mantle?
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Al Benton - Detroit Tigers
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Robert:  Start with the Babe Ruth Official Web site http://www.baberuthleague.org/ and see if you can contact them and get the charter information for Tulare, Visalia or Hanford or Tulare County.  Then check with the parks department in those cities to see if they have records of Babe Ruth using their ballfields (it's unlikely any youth leagues had their own fields in those days).  You can also go to the Times Delta, or the Tulare/Hanford papers and search their archives.  As a last result try ads in the newspapers for old timers who played, coached, umpired, etc. for BRL.  I think if you had a League in the mid-fifties the teams would have been composed of Tulare, Hanford, and Visalia.  By the way, Babe Ruth League ball didn't get to large sections of Los Angeles until the late 1950's and early1960's, so maybe it wasn't to the San Joaquin yet.  You might try to run down American Legion players of that era, as many of them helped coach Babe Ruth and Little League teams and may be able to answer your question.   BTW, I was a long term resident of Visalia until 1994, but now live out of state.
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Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player of all time... Clemente was incredible, and his World Series performance in 1971 was the best I've ever seen. His batting performance against the four 20-game winners of the Orioles was unbelievable (he batted .414)... I can't really say anyone has had a better World Series since that time (I've been watching W Series since 67).  Clemente hit safely in all 14 World Series games he played (1960 and 1971).\n\nClemente has benefited from a halo effect because of his heroic death, but he was in fact only the 3rd best right fielder of his time, after Aaron and Frank Robinson. However, that's not to say he wouldn't be the best right fielder in the game today. Ichiro is similar in the outfield to Clemente, except that Ichiro is faster. Anyone who ever saw Clemente gun down a runner at third or home will tell you that Ichiro's arm is very close to Clemente's, and Clemente may have had the greatest throwing arm of all time. His throws combined strength, accuracy and speed of release in whatever proportions were necessary to get the job done. His defensive statistics are probably the best of any right fielder ever.\n\nHowever, Clemente was not the player that Babe Ruth was.\n\nPlus, I pointed out in another thread (asking this same question)that, for more than 30 years, Babe Ruth simultaneously held the World Series records for (1) Most Home Runs HIT  and  (2) Most consecutive scoreless innings PITCHED.  His last W.S. HR was hit in 1932, and it wasn't until 1964 that Mantle passed him (Mantle ended up with 18, still the WS record).  Ruth's 29 consecutive scoreless innings streak (last pitched in W.S. of 1918)  was not broken until 1961, by Whitey Ford.\n\nBTW, Ruth is not the "only pitcher to have a winning record against the Yankees (among pitchers with 10 or more wins against them)".   Walter Johnson's career record against the Yankees, for example, is 61-38, with 21 shutouts... I'd say that qualifies as a winning record (Johnson's career record was 417-279.\n\nI'd bet that Lefty Grove also had a winning record against the Yanks, seeing has (1) his career record was 300-141 and (2) the A's were a dominant team in the late 20's/early 30's winning three straight pennants right in the middle of the Ruth/Gehrig era. Grove went 31-4 one of those years.\n\nVic Power's (see next comment) career numbers are \nGames 1,627\nAt Bats 6,046\nRuns  765 \nHits  1,716 \nDoubles 290 \nTriples 49 \nHomers  126  \nRBI's   658 \nBatting Avg  .284  \nOn Base Pct .315  \nSlugging Pct  .411\n\nHe was a good player, but not Hall of Fame caliber, I'm afraid...\n\nIt's usually useful, in trying to figure out whether a player belongs in the Hall of Fame or not, to apply a little test (called "the Keltner test") to his career record. It's not a test to be 'scored' in the sense that everyone over a certain number of 'yes' answers should be in, and everyone below should be out...but it's a useful way of claryfying where the player stands... \n\nAmong the questions you should ask yourself are:\n\n# 1  Was he ever regarded as the best player in baseball? Did anybody, while he was active, ever suggest that he was the best player in baseball?\n\n# 2 Was he the best player on his team?\n\n# 3 Was he the best player in baseball at his position? Was  he the best player in the league at his position?\n\n# 4 Did he have an impact on a number of pennant races? (Both positive and negative impacts should be considered)\n\n# 5 Was he good enough that he could continue to play regularly after passing his prime?\n\n# 6 Is he the very best baseball player in history who is not in the Hall of Fame?\n\n# 7 Are most players who have comparable statistics in the Hall of Fame?\n\n# 8 Do the player's numbers meet Hall of Fame standards?\n\n# 9 Is there any evidence to suggest that the player was significantly better or
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Bill Buckner's play at first base in game 6 of the World Series!\nCurse of the Babe, BABY!
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The big one was the curse of the Babe. \n\nBoston traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees and that's when they started losing... and when the Yankees started winning.\n\nBoston always had a good team. ALWAYS... but they never won until 2 years ago.
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Sounds like Babe Ruth, but I could be wrong.
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Evil trick question! Vida Blue was a switchhitter and pitchers still hit for themselves in '71 when he won the MVP.
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Babe Ruth sticks closer to MLB rules, keeping baselines and pitching distances standard, while Little League reduces baseline and pitching distances for younger players.  So technically, one could say Babe Ruth is more challenging I suppose.\n\nHope this helps.
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what , lets say the winning run was on second and babe ruth was up to bat an some reall bad guy was ondeck wouldnt you want to pitch to him insted of babe
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1.  Babe Ruth\n2.  Comiskey\n3.  1943\n4.  Pie Traynor in 1934\n5.  Fred Lynn in 1983\n\nNice of you to edit your answers, Rick H, after everyone behind you posted the right answers.  When I posted mine, you didn't have 3 and 4 correct.
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In June of 1905, Christy Mathewson and Mordecai "Three" Finger Brown both took no hitters into the 9th inning...Brown gave up two hits in the 9th and lost, 1-0.\n\nThis was topped in 1917, when Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds and Hippo Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs squared off in a pitcher's duel that was a hitless, scoreless tie after 9 innings — the only time in baseball history that neither team has had a hit in regulation.\n\nThe Reds got two hits in the top of the tenth off of Vaughn, and scored the winning run. In the bottom of the tenth, Toney retired the side and recorded a 10-inning no-hitter.\n\nThe closest any game has come since was in 1965, when Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game and opposing pitcher Bob Hendley of the Cubs gave up only one hit to the Dodgers - interestingly, the winning run in the 1-0 game scored in the fifth inning  (after a walk by Hendley), and the game's only hit came in the seventh). Lou Johnson of the Dodgers was the only man to reach base (he walked and scored in the 5th, and hit a double in the 7th).
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Here this will help you \n\n1- Billy Martin, 3- Babe Ruth, 4- Lou Gehrig, 5- Joe DiMaggio, 7- Micky Mantle, 8- Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey, 9- Roger Maris, 10- Phil Rizzuto, 15- Thurman Munson, 16- Whitey Ford, 23- Don Mattingly, 32- Elston Howard, 37- Casey Stengel, 42- Jackie Robinson (retired throughout baseball), 44- Reggie Jackson, 49- Ron Guidry.
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Mickey Mantle in 1960, a 643 Foot home run in Detroit Brigg’s Stadium in 1960.
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Present day player is Derek Jeter. All time was Mickey Mantle, with Thurman Munson a close second. You can tell I'm not a Yankee fan.... lol!
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Take your pick, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, or Mickey Mantle.  All three hit with power and ran with speed when they were in their prime. \n \nI believe the pitching is watered down now days with some many major league teams that there is not enough solid pitching to go around.  So it's difficult to compare today hitters with players from the 1920s to the 1970s.
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Babe Ruth. He took baseball out of the dead ball era and made it Americas pass time, the era before him was rife with gambling fixed games and sluggardly players he made it a fans game, he opened up the home run era unlike Barry Bonds who closed the steroid era. Ruth was the game he established the Yankee dynasty(I am NOT a Yankee fan. Twins) There might have more talented Ted Williams, Joe D. players but no one was more photogenic or accesible or self effacing as Ruth. Given thar if Williams had not spent the better part of three years in the Marines he would probably rank higher than Ruth but that is life
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Babe Ruth maxxed out at $80,000.  Joe DiMaggio was the first $100,000 baseball player.