Major League Baseball Stats History
Author: Baseball Bob
Henry Louis Gehrig 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.
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.
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.
Louis Gehrig had a great career with the New York Yankees before he passed away in 1939. His mothers name was Christina and his fathers name was Heinrich. He was the only child of 4 who lived past infancy, 1 died before he was born and 2 died after he was born.
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