Lou Gehrig

Baseball(a) has many heroes, both old and new. Cal Ripken Jr., Babe Ruth, and Ty Cobb are all considered outstanding players. However, one of the greatest was Lou Gehrig. Baseball was Gehrigs emotional state. Lou Gehrig, an outstanding baseball player and well-liked person was never in the spotlight until his life was cut short at the early age of xxx seven.

Gehrig was a poor German immigrant. He was born on June 19, 1903, in New York City. His parents names were Christina and Heinrich. Christina worked as a maiden for another family, and Heirich was a janitor. As a young youngster Gehrig was very close to his parents. He was the only of four children to survive birth in his family (Will 1). Gehrig was teased at school because he was shy. He was a famous local athlete. Lou went to the High aim of Commerce and had perfect attendance. Lou excelled in sports. He compete baseball, basketball, soccer, and football (Hollander 52). At 6 1 he was without a doubt build for sports. Gehrig always excelled in school work. He have in the top five in his class in 1921.

After Gehrig graduated he signed a contract with Hartford. While at Hartford he played under the name Lewis. Gehrig was payed for performing baseball at Hartford. In 1922 he went to Columbia University and played baseball there(Appel and Goldblatt 162).



The school found out about Gehrigs get paid for playing at Hartford. Gehrig caused the school a great amount of embarrassment and wasnt allowed to play anymore college baseball because he received payment from Hartford.

In 1923 Gehrig was offered a contract with the Yankees. His father disagreed, plainly he signed the contract anyway(Appel and Goldblatt 169). The Yankees sent Gehrig to the minor leagues because they idea that...

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