A lot of talk today about Pujols passing Ruth on the RBI list. But that's not really true.
RBI wasn't an official stat until 1920, so they are conveniently cutting off Ruth's earlier seasons. But those seasons have been back-tallied and Ruth is 2nd all time behind only Hammerin' Hank Aaron. Pujols is still 221 RBI behind Ruth - which he ain't getting to.
Pujols is only 2 RBI behind Gehrig, although it took Gehrig 5 less seasons to get there (I'm excluding Lou's first 2 years where he only played 23 total games and his last season when he only played 8 due to his illness)
Whenever I make these accumulative charts by season, I'm always amazed at Ted Williams' efficiency. He missed 3 seasons to WW2 and then 2 more due to Korea and an injury (the arrows below point to these missed seasons).
If not for Hitler, Williams is likely your all time RBI leader.
I don't mean to "poo" on Pujols. He's a hell of a hitter for the majority of his career.
But he didn't pass Ruth in RBI. And he isn't going to.
ESPN is fake news.