Here are some stats to aim for. Babe Ruth played 22 years and slashed .342/.474/.690. His slugging, OPS and OPS+ lead MLB for all time, plus a 183.1 WAR. Winning record every year of the 10 years he pitched: 94-46, .671 win percentage, 2.28 ERA and 1.159 WHIP.
not quite in the same league as Ohtani and Ruth is Smoky Joe Wood. In his great 1912 season, he hit .290 / .348 / .435 over 141 PAs for a 121 wRC+ while going 34-5 over 344 IP with a 1.91 ERA and 7.6 fWAR. He hurt his thumb fielding a bunt in 1913. He never really recovered and pitched through 1915 before missing 1916. Cleveland then bought him from the Red Sox late 1917, where he played OF with Tris Speaker (another former Red Sox). 1918 and 1922 were his best years as a position player (2 to2.2 fWAR), along with a nice 2021 playing part-time. His last season was 1922, then he became baseball coach at Yale from 1924-41. I think my uncle may have played for him since he was class of 1944. My Dad was class of '42 and I know my uncle was playing when my Dad was still in school.
Wood didn't pitch enough to make the Hall of Fame, really only with 2 outstanding years in 1911-12, nor would his hitting stand out on its own. Not an HoF guy, but between the pitching, hitting, and coaching, it's a real interesting figure in baseball.
He also watched the Darling vs Viola NCAA playoff game with Roger Angell, who memorialized his comments in his great article on that game.
