was Henry Louis Gehrig. After graduating from high school, he attended Columbia University where he

became a football and baseball star. Lou's father directed him to becoming a pro baseball player. He

became sick and needed on operation, but there was no money for doctors and hospital expenses in the

family budget, so young Lou quickly capitalized on his baseball skills. He accepted an offer from a scout to

sign a contract with the New York Yankees, for $ 1,500 in cash as a bonus. Lou dropped out of college to

play in the minor leagues and gain some experience until the Yankees needed him.

Gehrig was 22 when he became a big league rookie. He sat on the bench until one day in June in

the 1925 season when he finally broke into the Yankees' line up as a first baseman. It happened because the

team's veteran first baseman couldn't play because of a sever headache. He stayed first baseman for

fourteen seasons, five thousand eighty-two playing days, he played a total of two thousand, one hundred

and thirty major league games. It was

vast Yankees' ball park to pay homage to Gehrig and bid him farewell. Although the fabled "Iron Horse"

To create that unbelievable endurance, feat, strong and powerful Lou Gehrig nicknamed "The Iron

a record that will never be broken or even equaled.

On a July 4th afternoon of that memorable season more than 75,000 loyal fans flocked into the

Horse," played in every one of the two thousand, one hundred and thirty consecutive games, even though

that incredibly long playing period he played with all the enthusiasm of a kid breaking into the big leagues.

ever again wore Gehrig's famed number 4 on a baseball uniform.

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