Pete Crow-Armstrong angered a major baseball purist when he brought up a wild conspiracy theory that Babe Ruth did not exist."I was like dude, that's awesome," the Chicago Cubs star and MVP favorite said recently about hearing the theory."We always talk about how the game is evolving, and people may as well have been under handing the ball to that guy, and he's still regarded as one of the best players ever.
You might as well dive further into it and be like, well maybe he just never existed."That quote got the attention of longtime talking head and former MLB Network host Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, who said his "derogatory" comments on Ruth "drove me nuts."CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMPete Crow-Armstrong recently mentioned a conspiracy theory that Babe Ruth was not real.(Getty Images)"Hey Pete, you’re talking to me now about Ruth! Nobody hit home runs like Babe Ruth.
Say what you want about [Shohei] Ohtani, we understand that he’s a unicorn.Babe Ruth is so good it’s mind boggling," Russo began on "First Take" this week.
"Did you know, Peter Crow-Armstrong, that Babe Ruth hit 27 home runs over 500 feet? [Barry] Bonds? Never.Not one… Ruth owned baseball, nobody hit home runs like Ruth! He out-homered leagues!"To sit there and say they were pitching underhand, well why didn’t anybody else hit the home runs hitting underhand? Outside of Gehrig, nobody hit home runs! It drives me crazy, especially in baseball, it drives me crazy when I hear today’s athletes and media guys who are 30 years old, who disparage the old-time guys."Pete Crow-Armstrong #4 of the Chicago Cubs reacts to hitting a two-run home run in the third inning of a game between the Athletics and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on June 03, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois.
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