Old Baseball Bust of Hall of Fame Legend Lou Gehrig Played w NY Yankees - $80 - (Coatesville, PA)

RARE - Vintage Detailed Baseball Bust of Hall of Famer - NY Yankees! - Lou Gehrig - Marked, and stamped "7" underneath.Wikipedia: Henry Louis Gehrig (born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig;[1] June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), nicknamed "the Iron Horse", was an American baseball first baseman who played his entire professional career (17 seasons) in Major League Baseball(MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 until 1939. Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname "the Iron Horse." He was an All-Star seven consecutive times,[2] a Triple Crownwinner once,[3] an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice,[3] and a member of six World Series championteams. He had a career .340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on base average. He hit 493 home runsand had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame[4] and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team.A native of New York City and a student at Columbia University, Gehrig signed with the Yankees in 1923. He set several major-league records during his career,[5] including the most career grand slams (23) (since broken by Alex Rodriguez)[6][7] and most consecutive games played (2,130), a record that stood for 56 years and was long considered unbreakable until surpassed by Cal Ripken, Jr., in 1995.[8][9] Gehrig's consecutive game streak ended on May 2, 1939, when he voluntarily took himself out of the lineup, stunning both players and fans, after his performance on the field became hampered by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neuromuscular illness now commonly referred to in North America as "Lou Gehrig's disease."[10] The disease forced him to retire at age 36, and was the cause of his death two years later. The pathos of his farewell from baseball was capped off by his iconic 1939 "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" speech at Yankee Stadium.In 1969, the Baseball Writers' A…

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