Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.
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.
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.
Striking out batters was easy.