Lou Gehrig
Posted in Uncategorized on 05/24/2008 04:13 pm by admin
Is Lou Gehrig the closest thing to Superman in baseball?
Or do you liken somebody else to Superman. You might consider personality too. Superman stood for truth, justice, and the American way.
Maybe you don’t even know who Lou Gehrig is. How sad! He played with Babe Ruth on the NY Yankeees back in the 1920′s &30′s.
Have you forgotten about Cal Ripken Jr? He also does a lot of charity work and things for the community as well. He has set up the Cal Ripken baseball camps for kids as well.
I don’t need to mention his playing days do I? 2,632 consecutive games to break Lou Gehrig’s record, 3,184 hits, 431 home runs, 1,695 RBIs…19 time all-star and 1 World Series ring
I’d say Ripken is pretty close…as far as someone who is actively playing…Pujols or Jeter come to mind.
Lou Gehrig’s Speech
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Baseball’s Greatest Hits $11.98 It would be impossible to capture all the things that make the game great–the drama, the humor, the roar of the crowd–on one album, but the folks behind this sprawling collection come pretty darn close to hitting for the cycle. Old-time faves like Les Brown’s “Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio” segue into modern tributes such as Bill Slayback’s “Move Over Babe, Here Comes Henry,” while such tangential yet gr… |
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The Greatest Moments in Sports (actual sounds and voices – Babe Ruth cover photo) 1955 Columbia LP Album Columbia Masterworks LP from 1955 entitled “The Greatest Moments in Sports”. Album in gate fold jacket and includes a 20 page book of memorable black and white sports photographs. The album includes sounds and voices of some of the greatest sports figures and announcers between 1920 and 1954. Those featured include: Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Bobby Thomson, Knute Kockne, Jesse Owens, Roge… |
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[Lp Record] the Undefeated – Spot Dramas of 19 Famous People Who Overcame Defeat CONTENTS: SPOT DRAMA OF 19 FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO OVERCAME DEFEAT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ALBERT EINSTEIN, WALT DISNEY, BEETHOVEN, CLARA BARTON, CHARLES GOODYEAR, WRIGHT BROTHERS, GEORGE EASTMAN, JOHN AUDUBON, HERMAN MELVILLE, DWIGHT EISENHOWER, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, LOU GEHRIG, WHILTER’S MOTHER, CYRUS MCCORMICK, THOMAS EDISON, MILTON HERSHEY, JAMES EADA, JESUS CHRIST… |
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Love Affair: Eleanor & Lou Gehrig Story [VHS] $19.98 … |
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The Pride of the Yankees [VHS] $4.93 When people say, “They don’t make them like they used to,” Pride of the Yankees is just the kind of film they’re wistfully remembering. Nominated for 11 Academy awards (winning one for film editing), this handsome biographical drama of baseball legend Lou Gehrig is one of the most finely crafted films ever to emerge from Hollywood. Gary Cooper, that great oak of an American actor, progresses from … |
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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg [VHS] $9.98 Aviva Kempner’s Peabody Award-winning documentary is about baseball like Field of Dreams is about cornfields. Kempner efficiently covers all the bases of Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg’s magnificent career with archival footage and talking heads, including family members, former teammates and baseball legends, broadcasters and sportswriters, and such unabashed fans as Alan Dersho… |
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The Pride of the Yankees (Collector’s Edition) $8.47 Gary Cooper stars as baseball’s legendary “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, in one of the finest sports movies ever made. Follow Lou’s life, from his boyhood on the streets of New York to his all-star career with the Bronx Bombers and his tearful farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, cut down by a mysterious, fatal disease. With Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, and Babe Ruth as himself. 128 min. Standard; Soun… |
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The Pride of the Yankees $9.92 When people say, “They don’t make them like they used to,” Pride of the Yankees is just the kind of film they’re wistfully remembering. Nominated for 11 Academy awards (winning one for film editing), this handsome biographical drama of baseball legend Lou Gehrig is one of the most finely crafted films ever to emerge from Hollywood. Gary Cooper, that great oak of an American actor, progresses from … |