Actually, those guys rubbed shoulders with him. With sluggers DiMaggio and Mantle as teammates, Berra led the team in RBIs. Over his almost 20 year career and averaged over a 162 game season, Berra averaged 32 strikeouts PER SEASON - incredible - Mantle had more than three times that, and Joltin’ Joe had 10 times as many. Mantle walked more, but Berra had a far better eye than DiMaggio. As a minor league player in a double header, Berra had 23 RBIs! Can you even imagine that - that’s more than most teams score in a week. There may be no greater player, before or since.
I am stunned by that statistic.