MLB player Lou Gehrig. Lou was born on June 19, 1903; he sadly lost his life on June 2, 1941. Lou had a very successful life; he is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Lou also fought in World War II. He had this disease called ALS, which is also often called Lou Gherigs disease. This disease makes you very weak in the muscles where they can’t function anymore. He had this ongoing disease for around two years. In baseball, he had the nickname the Iron Horse because he was very durable during his 17-season career with the New York Yankees.
Lou was born in Yorkville, New York on June 19, 1903. He did not grow up in a wealthy family, His father, Heinrich, was a sheet metal worker. Then his mother Christina was a German …show more content…
He played 2,130 games consecutively and that record stood until 1995 which was broken by Cal Ripken Jr. Lou had 493 home runs, over 2,000 RBIs and an all time batting average of.340. As a member of the “Murders Row” he was a great hitter. Even though in 1939 his health took a turn for the worse with ALS disease, he was forced to retire and never play baseball again. It was devastating to him but in his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium he said “For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” This quote has been with baseball and the Yankees organization since it was …show more content…
There were people trying to reach out to help him, and nothing worked. There is no cure for ALS to this day, it is a chronic disease that happens over time. Lou was weak and less enthused, as if he was hopeless. The Iron Horse, which had played over 1,000 games, was done. After his passing in 1941 the U.S. was getting ready to go into war with the Germans and Japanese and the U.S. had a ship named after him named the S.S. Lou Gehrig. This ship had 480 men and 120 vehicles in it to help France with the D Day invasion. This helped out the war, jurrasically having it be the fordt turning point of the war. This would help the Allied forces gain momentum and end up taking down the Nazis and the
Lou was born in Yorkville, New York on June 19, 1903. He did not grow up in a wealthy family, His father, Heinrich, was a sheet metal worker. Then his mother Christina was a German …show more content…
He played 2,130 games consecutively and that record stood until 1995 which was broken by Cal Ripken Jr. Lou had 493 home runs, over 2,000 RBIs and an all time batting average of.340. As a member of the “Murders Row” he was a great hitter. Even though in 1939 his health took a turn for the worse with ALS disease, he was forced to retire and never play baseball again. It was devastating to him but in his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium he said “For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” This quote has been with baseball and the Yankees organization since it was …show more content…
There were people trying to reach out to help him, and nothing worked. There is no cure for ALS to this day, it is a chronic disease that happens over time. Lou was weak and less enthused, as if he was hopeless. The Iron Horse, which had played over 1,000 games, was done. After his passing in 1941 the U.S. was getting ready to go into war with the Germans and Japanese and the U.S. had a ship named after him named the S.S. Lou Gehrig. This ship had 480 men and 120 vehicles in it to help France with the D Day invasion. This helped out the war, jurrasically having it be the fordt turning point of the war. This would help the Allied forces gain momentum and end up taking down the Nazis and the