Gehrig vs Aaron

At the beach I read the Lou Gehrig book "Iron Horse" and learned that after Ruth hit his called shot at Wrigley Field against the Cubs in the World Series, Gehrig was the next hitter and hit a home run of his own two pitches later. Lou averaged more RBI, runs, doubles, and triples per season than Ruth or Aaron, and far fewer strikeouts. Hank averaged one more home run per season than Ruth, as well as four more hits per year then Gehrig.

Aaron played in over one thousand more games than Gehrig but walked fewer times and collected fewer triples. Gehrig really didn't play much in his last season, and neither did Ruth.

.AVG.OBP.SLG.OPS.total bases
.342 .474 .690 1.164 5793 BR
.340 .447 .632 1.080 5060 LG
.305 .374 .555 0.928 6856 HA

YR.games..PA...runs...hits..2B…3B..HR...RBI...BB....K…
22 2503 10623 2174 2873 506 136 714 2214 2062 1330 BR
17 2164 09663 1888 2721 534 163 493 1995 1508 0790 LG
23 3298 13941 2174 3771 624 098 755 2297 1402 1383 HA