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.
There is a lot of admiration for a person who enjoys their career and does it every day and ever single year which was shown by Carl Ripkin Jr. Ten years ago in 2002 when he broke the Iron Horses continuous game record which is now the most remembered moment in major league history.
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.
Gehrig had 184 runs n 1931 which is an American League record to this day. In 1927 season The Iron Horse had 47 home runs the only person to ever get more was Babe Ruth. He ranks in the top 10 of the best major league baseball players. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of fame in 1939. Louis Gehrig actually got a scholarship to go to college to play football not baseball. It is said that if he had not been past draft age when World War II started he would have volunteered to join the Navy. Growing up his hobbies were playing baseball, football and doing gymnastics.
His Jersey #4 was the first number to be resigned from American professional sports. When he was grown he was six feet in height and was two hundred pounds. He was born to German immigrants. Louis Gehrig was brought into this world In NY on 6-6-03 and weighed fourteen pounds.
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.
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.
There is a lot of admiration for a person who enjoys their career and does it every day and ever single year which was shown by Carl Ripkin Jr. Ten years ago in 2002 when he broke the Iron Horses continuous game record which is now the most remembered moment in major league history.
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.
Gehrig had 184 runs n 1931 which is an American League record to this day. In 1927 season The Iron Horse had 47 home runs the only person to ever get more was Babe Ruth. He ranks in the top 10 of the best major league baseball players. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of fame in 1939. Louis Gehrig actually got a scholarship to go to college to play football not baseball. It is said that if he had not been past draft age when World War II started he would have volunteered to join the Navy. Growing up his hobbies were playing baseball, football and doing gymnastics.
His Jersey #4 was the first number to be resigned from American professional sports. When he was grown he was six feet in height and was two hundred pounds. He was born to German immigrants. Louis Gehrig was brought into this world In NY on 6-6-03 and weighed fourteen pounds.
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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