Topic: Lou Gehrig
While there have been numerous great Yankee teams, two teams come quickly to my mind, the 1927 Yankees and the 1998 Yankees. This incredible Yankee team became the first team in major league history to be in first place for the entire ...
Born in Manhattan in 1903 to German immigrants, Gehrig joined the New York Yankees in 1923 . Lou Gehrig was a first baseman for the New York Yankees during the 1920s and 1930s . Lou batted behind Babe Ruth , Gehrig was ...
The criteria for making baseball's all-time greatest team is not scientific. Lou Gehrig - The "Iron Horse" is the starter at first for multiple reasons. Gehrig was a six-time all-star, six-time World Champion and two-time A.L. MVP. Over seventeen seasons, Gehrig swatted ...
The New York Yankees all-time home run leaders are composed of a quintet of Hall of Famers who put together their thus insurmountable totals more than half a century ago. In his first year with the Yankees, Ruth hit 54 home runs; ...
Major-league baseball has never been more popular. Today's game seems faster-paced than it did when Mantle, Mays, Spahn and Snider were playing. With apologies to Babe Ruth, who I consider the greatest major-leaguer ever, I'm going with defense, speed and style over ...
As winners of 27 World Series titles - the most championships of any team in the four major professional sports in North America - the New York Yankees have been responsible for many of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history. ...
ball" player of all ages, it means that spring training is just a few weeks away. One of my favorite baseball movies is the "Pride of the Yankees", starring Gary Cooper as the Iron Horse, Lou Gehrig , he and his wife ...
17,000 men have played Major League Baseball since it beganin 1876. He died of a brain tumor at age 58 in Babe Ruth was 6'2 215 lbs. Babe Ruth led the AmericanLeague in Slugging Average (SLG) 13 straight years; had the highest ...
Baseball has had more books written about it and more stories committed to film than any other sport. A new boy (Scotty Smalls) in the neighborhood is befriended by the local sandlot team. Starring Kevin Costner as the everyman, the film packs ...
Growing up a fan of baseball I had never really followed the Yankees because I was loyal to the other team playing in New York, The Mets which was the team my mother followed and loved which was not her first love. ...
