Home run king Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees, center, is seen with teammates Tony Lazzeri, left, and Lou Gehrig, right, June 1927 in New York. Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his record ...

Babe Ruth (right) and Lou Gehrig formed a potent 1-2 punch for the New York Yankees during the ... [+] Roaring '20s and beyond. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via ...

Almost his entire career was played in the wakes of other Yankee stars, not that Gehrig minded. The first shadow belonged to Babe Ruth, Gehrig's idol who was dominating the sport when the young ...

What Connor and Leon have done really is equivalent to one duet and that has to be Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The New York Yankees of 1920's "Murderer's Row" comprised a duet that dominated the ...

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse," played a quiet second fiddle to Babe Ruth. Gehrig took center stage after Ruth’s retirement, but then Joe DiMaggio arrived. While someone ...

NEW YORK – Whether or not Babe Ruth called his shot during the 1932 ... home run to center that was immediately followed by a Lou Gehrig home run? What’s indisputable is that Ruth had the ...

Babe and your scribe met at City School in the appropriately-named biography, “Babe Ruth,” one in a series decked out in ...

To this day, Babe Ruth is one of the most-famous baseball players in the world. If you ask a random person to name five baseball players, there’s a good chance that Ruth will get mentioned.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Dan has written 41 books and more than 25,000 articles about baseball. As Hank Aaron (44) approached Babe Ruth's career home run record ...

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse," played a quiet second fiddle to Babe Ruth. Gehrig took center stage after Ruth’s retirement, but then Joe DiMaggio arrived. While someone ...