He would have beat Ruth.
What a sad thing that was.
Ruth was a pitcher for his first years and played a number of seasons with the dead ball.
“I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.”
Lou “The Iron Horse” Gehrig
Beat him how? They played together for six or seven years, and were on the same team over a decade.