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Lou Gehrig.
Born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig on June 19, 1903 in New York City. He was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the New York Yankees. ALS, a degenerative terminal illness, which came to be known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”, prematurely ended his career.
Lou Gehrig’s mother, Christina, was adamant that Gehrig receive a good education, so in 1921 he went to Columbia on a football scholarship to pursue a degree in engineering. Before his first semester began, New York Giants manager John McGraw advised him to play summer professional baseball under the assumed name of Henry Lewis. Gehrig was discovered after playing a dozen games for Hartford in the Eastern League. As a result, he was banned from intercollegiate sports during his freshman year.
Gehrig returned to sports playing fullback for Columbia during the 1922 season. He then pitched and played first base for the Columbia Nine in 1923. Baseball scout Paul Krichell saw the Columbia baseball team and Gehrig’s hitting skills impressed him so much he signed Gehrig to the Yankees in 1923 with a $1,500 bonus. Gehrig left Columbia and returned to Hartford where he hit .304. When he was called up to the majors in September he hit .423 in 26 at bats.
After a full season at Hartford, Gehrig became a Yankee for good in 1925, replacing Wally Pipp as first baseman and didn’t leave the playing field for over 13 years. In 1925 he batted 437 times for a .295 average with 20 homeruns and 68 RBI’s.
1926 was Gehrig’s breakout season. He hit .313 with 47 doubles and led the league with 20 triples, 16 home runs and 112 RBI’s. Gehrig would not bat less than .300 until his last full season in 1938. He had more than 40 home runs and led the League in RBI’s five times, including a still standing American League record of 184 in 1931.
In 1927 Ruth and Gehrig dominated the baseball headlines in a way two players had never done before. That year Ruth hit 60 homeruns, breaking his old record of 59 and Gehrig hit 47, which was more than anyone other than Ruth had ever hit. Together they hit more homeruns than every team in baseball except one. In 1928 Ruth and Gehrig tied for the RBI lead with 142 and despite being walked six times during that World Series, he hit .545.
On June 3, 1932, Gehrig became the first American League ball player to hit four home runs in a game. Gehrig’s fourth home run was to left field and only a great catch by Al Simmons kept Gehrig from hitting his fifth home run of the day.
His lifetime batting average was.340, the 15th all time highest and he amassed more than 400 total bases on five occasions. Only 13 men have accomplished that in one season. Ruth did it twice and Chuck Klein did it three times. Gherig is one of only seven players with more than 100 extra base hits in one season and only he and Klein accomplished that twice.
During his career Gehrig averaged 147 RBI’s a season. No other player reached that mark in a single season until George Foster did it in 1977 and Gehrig did it while batting behind two of history’s greatest base cleaners, Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. Gehrig’s 184 RBI’s, in 1931, remains the highest single season total in American League history.
Gehrig won the Triple Crown in 1934, with a .363 average, 49 homeruns and 165 RBI’s and was chosen Most Valuable Player again in 1936. Despite his size, he stole home 15 times in his career. He batted .361 in 34 World Series games with 10 homeruns, eight doubles and 35 RBI’s. He also holds the record for career grand slams at 23. He hit 73, three run homeruns and 166 two run homeruns, giving him the highest average of RBI’s per homerun of any player with more than 300 homeruns.
On June 21, 1939, the Yankees announced that Low Gehrig was retiring due to ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, an incurable neuromuscular disease. The Yankees celebrated “Lou Gehrig Day” on July 4, 1939, with more than 62,000 fans in attendance. The Yankees retired his uniform and number, 4, making him the first player in history to be afforded that honor. He fought back tears of overwhelming emotion as he spoke, calling himself the “luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Gehrig was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
On June 2,1941, “The Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, passed away from ALS.