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.

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.

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.

His 1st day with the Yankees he did not bring a bat of his own so when the team manager took him the batting cages he picked one from the fence, it just happened to be Babe Ruth’s favorite bat, surprisingly he did not tell him to put the bat back but said hi to him instead. Louis Gehrig was behind Babe Ruth in the batting line up and his RBI numbers were always very 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.

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.Bobbie Barton is a fitness trainer She likes SportsFanTreasures.com and recommends you check out their info on Washington Nationals Watch, St. Louis Cardinals Bedding and Cleveland Indians Bedding