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...acting" commissioner for nearly six ugly years, crawled back into daylight to crown himself "real" commissioner this month. "The fact that we were doing so well had something to do with it, definitely," he says. When all other business plans fail, find a guy you can compare to Babe Ruth...
...regularly booed him, even at home games in Yankee Stadium. The stress got so bad, his graying crew cut started to fall out in chunks. He was 26. With the rationale that Maris' season was eight games longer than Ruth's, commissioner Ford Frick, a friend of the Babe's, put an asterisk by Maris' name, which was not removed until 1992, seven years after Maris died. Maris never accepted an invitation to Yankee Stadium, and he moved to Florida, where he sold beer and avoided baseball. He is not in the Hall of Fame...
...Price fetched for a 1933 Babe Ruth baseball card at a sports-memorabilia auction last week
...greatest ever? Not just the greatest basketball player but the greatest athlete: a figure who not only dominates his sport but also changes the way it's played, who dominates that sport not only in his own time but also across time? Where does Jordan stand relative to Babe Ruth, say, or Muhammad...
...diminished by one brutal fact: he didn't play against black athletes. One-tenth of the population, and surely a far larger proportion of those motivated to succeed in athletics, never had a chance to test Ruth. I hate to admit it, but it may be that the Babe was more George Mikan than Michael Jordan...