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
Gehrig by far his b.a. was better slugging on base average of rbi per ab and r per ab much better would have better career numbers than aaron with his at bats
Gehrig by far his b.a. was better slugging on base average of rbi per ab and r per ab much better would have better career numbers than aaron with his at bats
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