Henry Louis Gehrig played 2,130 games for the New York Yankees, he made 493 home runs and had 13 consecutive 100-RBI seasons, his career average was 340, and he played 6 world series championships. His was hoping to reach 2,500 consecutive games before his career ended and maybe if he would have remained healthy he would have reached that goal.
Henry Louis Gehrig or The Iron Horse as he was best known passed away in 1941 after fighting ALS, he said said so long in the Yankee Stadium two years prior to that. He enjoyed baseball and loved playing every game.
The normal person admires people who adore their profession and work at it every day of the year, we witnessed this in 2002 When Iron Horses continuous game record was broke by Carl Ripkin Jr. This is the most commemorate time in baseball history.
The Iron Horse replaced Wally Pipp as first baseman in 1925. The only way he missed a game was if the ALS took him out. Even as a child he didn't like to miss school, he once told a story that involved his mother telling him to stay in bed one day because he was sick but as soon as she left for work he got up and went to school, she had to pick him up. Gary Cooper stared in a movie about him called "Pride of The Yankees".
The day he started with the team he hadn't brought a bat so once him and the team manager got to the cages he pulled a bat off the fence, he didn't know it but this bat belonged to Babe Ruth and was his preferred bat, astonishingly he didn't make him replace it instead he just said hi. Louis Gehrig batted after Babe Ruth in the line up, his RBI stats stayed extremely high.
While he was growing up he liked to play baseball, football and do gymnastics. It is believe if he had not been over the draft age at the beginning of World War II he would have enlisted to be in the Navy. Louis Gehrig went to college on a football scholarship not baseball. In 1939 he was honored with being placed in Baseballs Hall of Fame. He is among the top ten best baseball players in the major league. Babe Ruth was the only person to get more home runs then the Iron Horse, he had forty seven home runs in the 1927 season. Gehrig has the American League record of 184 runs to this day.
The Iron Horse's mother gave birth to him in the New York district in the year 1903 on the sixth of June. His weight was fourteen pounds. He was born to immigrants from Germany. As he grew he reached a height of six feet and the weight of 200 pounds. The first retired number in American professional sports was Jersey number 4 which belonged to him.
Louis Gehrig was an amazing asset to the New York Yankees before his death in 1939. His parents Christina and Heinrich Gehrig had four children of which he was the only survivor. One child passed before his birth and two passed after his birth.
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