The New York Yankees And Henry Louis Gehrig
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.Bobbie Barton is a fitness trainer She likes SportsFanTreasures.com and recommends you check out their info on Kansas City Royals Watch, Minnesota Twins Blanket and Anaheim Angels Bedding
