Lou Gehrig

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Lou Gehrig

• By Maxwell W.

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Early Childhood

• Born June 19, 1903 in New York.
• Died June 2, 1941 in Riverdale, New York.
• His Final Game was in April 30, 1939.

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Traits

• Bats Left
• Throws Left
• Height60
• Weighed 200 pounds
• Went to the school of Columbia University

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A Star

• Thought he was a star
• Thought himself invincible

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Staying in Shape

• Not a drinker
• Practiced with Babe Ruth
• Compared himself to Babe Ruth
• Played injured

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Baseball Career

• Played in 2,130 consecutive games
• Was number four in the New York Yankees 1939

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Characteristics

• He was successful because he broke so many
  records and was in the hall of fame. Babe Ruth
  even said he was good.
• He was the star of the team.

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Quotes

• Lou was the most valuable player the Yankees
  ever had because he was the prime source of their
  greatest asset an implicit confidence in
  themselves and every man on the club-Sports
  writer Stanley Frank (www.baseballhalloffame.org)

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LEGENDS OF THE GAME

• Lou Gehrig used to play with Babe Ruth
• In his 13 full seasons, Lou Gehrig average 147
  RBIs a year, from 1926 thru 1938

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Lou Statistics

• On June 15, 1923, when Lou Gehrig was twenty
  years
• old, he broke into the Big Leagues with the
  New York Yankees.

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THE ENDING OF HISTORY

• By the end of spring training in 1939, Gehrigs
  skills seemed to be failing. On may 2, 1939
  Gehrig brought his consecutive game streak to an
  end