Word: gehrig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heavyweight Champion, What Price Glory was playing on Broadway, and Ty Cobb was still in his prime - when Manager Miller Huggins of the New York Yankees, one fine day in June 1925, stepped up to a clumsy, rosy-cheeked rookie his scouts had picked up on the Columbia campus. "Gehrig," he muttered, "you take Wally Pipp's place at first base today." Last week, for the first time since that faraway day, the Yankees started a game without Lou Gehrig...
...those 14 years, milk-drinking, early-to-bed Lou Gehrig, son of a German-born Manhattan janitor, became famed as Base ball's Iron Horse. He played in 2,130 consecutive games (besides seven World Series and hundreds of exhibition games)-a record that no baseballer has ever approached or perhaps ever will.* Far more important than his record for durability, however, is Gehrig's batting record: 1,991 runs driven in (100 runs or more a year for 13 years), 2,721 hits (1,192 of them for extra bases), 1,886 runs (including 494 home runs...
DETROIT Mich, (UP) Columbia Lou Gehrig's great iron-man baseball record was abruptly cut short yesterday at 2130 consecutive games, and his mates took the occasion to go on a scoring spree and pound out 22 runs against the liap less Detroit Tigers...
...Gehrig went to Manager Joe McCarthy just before the game and said: "The whole team isn't going so good and I'm not going so good myself. I think that it would be better for me to get out of there for a while...
William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, journeyed to New York a couple of days age to address the Herald-Tribune Forum on "Keeping the Mind Clean. Through Sport." Tennist Holen Wills and slugger Lou Gehrig were near him, but right beside him was a vacant chair...