Iron Horse
The Iron Horse And The New York Yankees
While playing for the New York Yankees Louis Gehrig participated in 2,130 games, he had four hundred and ninety three home-runs and had thirteen continuous 100-RBI seasons, three hundred and forty was his average for his career and he was in six world series. He had a dream of reaching 2,500 continuous games before he ended his career, if he hadn’t been diagnosed with ALS he would probably have achieved that dream.
Henry Louis Gehrig also known as The Iron Horse lost his battle to ALS in 1941, 2 years after he said goodbye to all his fans at the Yankee Stadium. Louis Gehrig loved baseball and enjoyed every day and every minute that he played.
People have a lot of respect for for someone who loves their job and does it every single day and every single year which was seen 10 yrs ago in 2002 when the moment most remembered in major league history was Carl Ripkin Jr. Breaking The Iron Horses consecutive game record.
First baseman Wally Pipp was replaced by the Iron Horse in 1925. He never missed a game unless ALS had him down. When he was a kid he would do his best not to miss class, he told someone once that he was ill one day and his mom asked him to stay home but as soon as she was out the door to work he left for school, she wind up having to go get him. Gary Cooper appeared in the movie “Pride of The Yankees” as Louis Gehrig.
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.
The record for the American League is one hundred and eighty four to this day which Gehrig had in 1931. Louis Gehrig made forty seven home runs in the 1927 season, Babe Ruth is the one person who has gotten more. He is amongst the top ten best baseball players in the major league. In 1939 he was placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Louis Gehrig received a football scholarship to attend college instead of baseball. It is rumored that if he had been drafting age at the start of World War II he would have enlisted in the Navy. When he was young he enjoyed gymnastics, playing football and baseball.
Louis Gehrig was born In New York on June 6, 1903. He was 14lbs when he was born. His parents were German immigrants. He grew to be 6 feet tall and weigh 200lbs. His Jersey #4 was the 1st number to ever be retired in American professional sports.
Of four children he was the one who made it past infancy, one passed before him and two passed after him. His parents names were Heinrich and Christina Gehrig. Louis Gehrig held a wonderful profession playing for the New York Yankees before he died in 1939.
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