How many home runs did George H Ruth hit?

The Pride of the Yankees, a 1942 film about Gehrig's life, featured Gary Cooper as Lou and Teresa Wright as his wife Eleanor. It received 11 Academy Award nominations, but only garnered one win. Real-life Yankees Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig and Bill Dickey, then still an active player, played themselves, as did sportscaster Bill Stern. The film incorrectly suggests that Gehrig did not play at all until the 1925 season, when his streak began. He did play briefly in the 1923 and 1924 seasons, although he was not on the World Series roster in 1923. The film also alters his farewell speech, with the "luckiest man" line coming at the end, rather than the beginning. In a famous scene, Gehrig visits a crippled boy named Billy (Gene Collins) in a hospital and promises to hit two home runs for him in a single World Series game; Gehrig successfully fulfills his promise, and an older Billy attends Lou Gehrig Day and shows Gehrig that he can walk without a limp, as if the illness had never happened.