Word: gehrig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sport's No. 1 hero of 1939 is dimple-cheeked, piano-legged Lou Gehrig. Last spring, when a rare form of paralysis compelled First Baseman Gehrig to give up his beloved post after 15 years with the New York Yankees, U. S. sportswriters wreathed their columns with encomiums seldom bestowed on the living. Skimming over the Iron Horse's unrivaled feat of playing in 2,130 consecutive major-league games and casually reviewing his extraordinary batting records (some surpassing those of Babe Ruth), they crowned Lou Gehrig's Honesty, Modesty, Courage. Practically canonized. 36-year...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Idol Gehrig to a ten-year term on the Municipal Parole Commission, to serve as an inspiration to delinquent boys. Rich George Ruppert, brother of the late owner of the Yankees, offered to sponsor the baseball career of a "second Lou Gehrig," to be chosen from the sidewalks of New York (Gehrig's nursery). Last week the Baseball Writers Association of America, waiving the rule that a candidate must be out of play for at least a year, unanimously voted Lou Gehrig into Baseball's Hall of Fame* at Cooperstown...
While the Hall of Fame's curator prepared a niche for Immortal Gehrig's plaque alongside Immortal Babe Ruth's (his old teammate), a handful of U. S. high-school kids prepared last week to do-or-die for the Lou Gehrig Cup. Emblematic of the national high-school football championship, the big, silver trophy will be awarded annually to the winner of Miami's "Health Bowl" game. Scheduled for Christmas night this year, its proceeds will be donated to the "Fight Infantile Paralysis Campaign...
Last fortnight, after reaching a record of 2,130 consecutive big-league games, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees' "Iron-Horse," went to Rochester, Minn., checked in at the Mayo Clinic to find out what ailed his slowed-up legs, his weakened grip. After a week of grilling and probing, Dr. Harold Clinton Habein gave Lou, on his 36th birthday, a sealed envelope and a sheaf of X-ray pictures. The verdict: "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
Only treatment Mayo Clinic specialists could prescribe for Lou Gehrig was rest and special exercises. Although doctors said his grueling baseball career had nothing to do with his disease, he will never swing a bat again, nor even whip a fly rod. Said the Iron Horse last week, as he smilingly faced his enforced pasture: "I guess I have to accept the bitter with the sweet. If this is the finish, I'll take...