Lou Gehrig, a man who made us forget Wally Pipp ... Is it his 493 homers, his 1,990 runs batted in, his .340 batting average, his American League record 184 RBI in one year, his major league ...
In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse," played a quiet second fiddle to Babe Ruth. Gehrig took center stage after Ruth’s retirement, but then Joe DiMaggio arrived. While someone ...
340 batting average. A seven-time All-Star and six-time World Series champion with the Yankees. His diagnosis with ALS, now known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” brought attention to the ailment.