The Iron Horse And The New York Yankees
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 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 movie about him called "Pride of The Yankees" featured Gary Cooper. It is said that he once told a tale where he was ill and his mother told him to stay in bed but as soon as she went to work he went to school, she picked him up later that day, even as a child he didn't like to miss school. In 1925 the Iron Horse took over being first baseman for Wally Pipp.
Louis Gehrig was after Babe Ruth in the batting line up and his RBI numbers were always extremely high. On his first day with the team he didn't bring his own bat so when the team manager led him to the batting cages he chose one from the fence line, the bat he chose was Babe Ruth's bat (his favorite bat) amazingly he didn't demand that he return the bat but instead said hi to him.
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.
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.
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 movie about him called "Pride of The Yankees" featured Gary Cooper. It is said that he once told a tale where he was ill and his mother told him to stay in bed but as soon as she went to work he went to school, she picked him up later that day, even as a child he didn't like to miss school. In 1925 the Iron Horse took over being first baseman for Wally Pipp.
Louis Gehrig was after Babe Ruth in the batting line up and his RBI numbers were always extremely high. On his first day with the team he didn't bring his own bat so when the team manager led him to the batting cages he chose one from the fence line, the bat he chose was Babe Ruth's bat (his favorite bat) amazingly he didn't demand that he return the bat but instead said hi to him.
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.
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.
