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Transcript and Audio of Lou Gehrig's Farewell to Baseball Address; New York Times obituary at The Deadball Era; Eig, Jonathan (2005). Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0743245913. Eisenberg, John (2017). The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Ripken holds the record for consecutive games played (2,632), having surpassed Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 which had stood for 56 years and which many deemed was unbreakable. In 2007 , he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility with 98.53% of votes, the sixth-highest election percentage ever to-date.
The record—2,632 consecutive games, a streak compiled over more than 16 years—is held by Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles, and is considered to be one of the league's unbreakable records. Ripken surpassed Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees , whose record of 2,130 consecutive games had stood for 56 years.
On this day in 1933, Lou Gehrig became baseball's Iron Man, breaking the record for most consecutive games played with 1,308. Ripken broke the record in 1995, and will likely hold it for decades ...
On June 2, 1941 Lou Gehrig would die; he was 37 years old. Let us be mindful of old people with ailments too.
Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig's record [ edit ] On Wednesday, September 6, 1995, many baseball fans within and out of the United States tuned into cable TV network ESPN (and called by Chris Berman and Buck Martinez ) to watch Ripken surpass Lou Gehrig 's 56-year-old record for consecutive games played.
Cal Ripken Jr. Net Worth: $75 million. Hall of Fame Class: 2007. ... But Ripken is forever known as the "Iron Man" for breaking Lou Gehrig's seemingly unbreakable record for consecutive games ...
The numbers on the Orioles' warehouse changed from 2130 to 2131 to celebrate Cal Ripken Jr. passing Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played streak. The labor impasse continued into the spring of 1995. Almost all the major league clubs held spring training using replacement players, with the intention of beginning the season with them. The Orioles ...