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 or The Iron Horse as he was best known passed away in 1941 after fighting ALS, he said said so long in the Yankee Stadium two years prior to that. He enjoyed baseball and loved playing every game.

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.

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.

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.