Gerhig Louis was born on June 19, 1903 in New York city he lived with his dad and his mom. Gerhig showed himself that he was a gifted athlete, excelling in football and baseball.
After he graduated from high school he went to Columbia University where he studied engineering and later on he knew that he was interested in baseball so he decided to join the New York Yankees to his first professional contract.
After he signed the contract in June 1923 Gehrig became a Major League Baseball player by playing 2,130 consecutive seasons he scored 100 runs and knocked many 13 consecutive games. In 1931 he became the first player to hit four home runs in a single game.Gehrig garnered many achievements in his career.
He hit 493 home runs and established a record for playing 2,130 consecutive professional baseball games. The Yankees also made him the first athlete to have a jersey number retired.?
In 1938 Gehrig knew that his body started to fail and he was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS), on his 36th birthday during a visit with his wife Eleanor to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on June 19, 1939. Prior to his diagnosis, Gehrig noticed several of the disease’s symptoms while playing on the field, including a loss of strength, slipping, falling and loss of coordination.
And then on June 2, 1941, he passed away from (ALS) in home New York City. On that day, nearly 62,000 fans listened to Gehrig give his famous speech where he deemed himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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