Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

The line is an unambiguous profession of lifelong devotion: Ruth frames baseball not as a pastime he happened to excel at, but as a permanent personal and cultural ideal. The triplet “was, is and always will be” turns a simple preference into a creed, suggesting continuity across eras and across his own changing fortunes. Coming from the sport’s most famous early superstar, the statement also functions as mythmaking—reinforcing baseball’s self-image as America’s preeminent game and presenting Ruth as both beneficiary and guardian of that tradition. Its simplicity is part of its force: it reads like a final verdict rather than an argument.