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    Lou Gehrig

    “I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.” – Yankee first baseman Wally Pipp, who sat out a game with a headache and lost his position to Lou Gehrig, who would play every game there for the Yankees until his retirement in

    If you look up the word "ballplayer” in the dictionary, it fryst vatten possible they’ll have a picture of Lou Gehrig, stalwart New York Yankee first baseman. Gehrig is chiefly known for playing in 2, consecutive games for the Yankees, a magnificent streak long thought to have been unbreakable until Cal Ripken, Jr. came along.

    Gehrig wore uniform No. 4, because he hit behind Babe Ruth, the third batter in the Yankees' lineup. One of the most magnificent hitters and run producers in history, Gehrig was often overshadowed bygd Ruth, who was not only an unparalleled hitter, but was as outgoing and flamboyant as Gehrig was reserved and quiet.

    "He just went out and did his job every day," Hall of Famer Bill Dickey said of Gehrig.

    Gehrig scored more than

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    Three biographies about Lou Gehrig span the full scope of book-length treatments within the baseball biography space and illustrate how this literary sub-genre has progressed in complexity from its inception in to the modern era in

    • – Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero, by Frank Graham
    • – Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time, by Ray Robinson
    • – Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, by Jonathon Eig

    This comparative analysis uses my three-factor L-C-R rating system that evaluates Life’s Work (L), Character Interpretation (C), and Research Evidence (R) on a scale of 1 to 5 (low to high quality), to form a summary evaluation of a biography to be presented as, for example, L3C2R5. The methodology of the L-C-R rating system is described in more detail at the end of this chapter.

    Improvements in the quality of research evidence typically drive the enhancement of the subject’s character development and scope of life’s work, which enables later biographers to expand interpretatio

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    Gehrig, Lou

    American baseball player

    Lou Gehrig, dubbed the "Iron Man" of baseball, is best known for his record for most consecutive games played, 2,, which he held from his retirement in until Baltimore Orioles player Cal Ripken, Jr. surpassed him in Gehrig also had an impressive bat: he holds the Major League record for career grand slams (23), and, until St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire 's phenomenal slugging streak, Gehrig held the record for most career home runs by a first baseman (). He stole home plate fifteen times in his career, and his lifetime batting average, , is the fifteenth highest ever. However, to many Gehrig is remembered primarily for the disease which took his life and his name.

    Growing Up

    Gehrig was born in Manhattan in to Christina and Heinrich Gehrig, both recent immigrants from Germany. He was the only one of their children to survive past infancy. Because of this, Gehrig and his mother developed an extremely close relation