Baseball's original iron man, Lou Gehrig is best known as
Babe Ruth's most outstanding cohort in the center of the great Yankees' "Murder's Row" lineup, and for his courageous fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a disease which would afterward become popularly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease." Gehrig, among the best first basemen in baseball history, played his entire career with the Yankees. Gehrig's career spanned the peak of Ruth's prowess to the budding of
Joe DiMaggio as a superstar. Gehrig's Yankee teams won World Series in 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. Lou Gehrig was elected to the Hall Of Fame in 1939.
Hollywood legend Gary Cooper played Lou in the story of his life, "The Pride of the Yankees."
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