Of course, we don’t know how Hank Greenburg would have done if he got to have Lou Gehrig in the on deck circle.
We also don’t know if Babe Ruth could have either pitched or hit a good slider.
I know which side of a wager on that issue I would take.
But even if he couldn’t he would have led the league in total home runs for the next 50 or 60 years. Just as he did in the pitching category.
And the funny part is if you had to pick him out as one of the greatest athletes of all time, you couldn’t because he looked like anything but. Barrel-chested, bandy legged with short arms hardly a near-Greek God like many of today’s guys.