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Lou Gehrig: A Brief Biography

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Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig (The Iron Hose) was probably one of the greatest baseball players ever, along with Babe Ruth. Considering he and Ruth both made it into the Hall of Fame. He was also great friends with The Babe while being of the same team for a period of time. He was officially born in the United States but his parents were German descendants moving to the Free Land years before his birth. Lou Gehrig was born in 1903, Manhattan, New York, when becoming five moving to Washington Heights. While moving next to the New York Giants stadium and the New York Highlanders. He was then known from then on the the sandlot player of football and baseball. He had a rough childhood being the only child out of four to survive infancy. While he lived …show more content…

Lou Gehrig’s career was definitely one to remember. He did amazing especially since he stayed on the Yankees for his whole career. Yet within 2 years of major league baseball Ruth and him were in like a hitting competition considering they were the power hitters. With the Babe in the 3rd spot and Gehrig in clean-up they were absolute animals when they played. Instead of just offence Gehrig played had taken the 1st basemen spot from Wally Pipp and played there for a huge total of 14 years! Although it may seem that he was only friends with the Babe but he was actually amazing friends with his Major League manager, Miller Huggins. On the other hand at some point when everything that seems to be going great it has to come to some kind of end. In a tragic turn out apparently Huggins had been suffering from a rare skin condition called erysipelas in September 25, 1929, at the age of 51. Everything may have seemed bad until Gehrig 's 1931’s season where he has had the best season of his life. While setting the American League record with 184 RBI’s and in 1932 he became the third person to hit 4 home runs in a single game! Not to mention that he made it into the Hall Of Fame, which very few stars get to be in. Then again what seems great has to come to an end with Babe Ruth retiring in the year of 1934. On the plus side Gehrig’s took a trip up with him winning the Triple Crown even after one of his best friends had left the team. Even though Ruth gone Gehrig had the spotlight to

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