Also from article: Lou Gehrig, who was on deck as the next Yankees hitter, said oh, yes, the Babe did predict the homer.
''What do you think of the nerve of that big monkey, calling his shot and getting away with it?'' Gehrig said.
I was just reading Jonathon Eig's The Luckiest Man and Gehrig hit a towering HR after Ruth's called shot but of course as was usually the case with Gehrig he was overshadowed by Ruth.
In "The Pride of the Yankees" Lou Gehrig is visiting a children's hospital before a game and promises a sick kid to hit
two home runs for him...and manages to although the pitcher tried to give him an intentional walk the last time he came to the plate. Never happened.
Pretty disillusioning...if you can't trust the movies, what can you trust?