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Lou Gehrig: Baseball Player |
Quotes: 1.''Fans for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself as the luckiest man on the face of the earth.'' 2.''I would not traded two minutes of the joy and grief with that man for two decades of anything with another.'' |
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Timeline: 1.1903-born on June 19, in Yorksville New York. 2.1921-He went to Colombia Collage on A football scholarship. 3.1923-Pitched and played first base at Colombia when a scout discoverd him 5.1923-sied to the New York Yankees 6.1927-Lou Gehrig became MVP of the New York Yankees. 7.1934-Won the Triple Crown award with a.363 batting average with 49 homer s and 165 RBIs. |
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Character Quality Traits \ Antidotes: 1.Kund to people even if they were mean. 2.Worked hard for every thing he had 3.Funny liked to goof off 4. When young liked to fight 5.Not afraid of to Die. |
Accomplishments: 1.Hit four home runs in a game. 2.Holds the records for the most grand slams in a career with 23. 3.Set record of playing in a 2,130consecutive games even with 17 fractures in his hands.His record still stood until Cal Ripken .JR broke it in 1995. 4.Became the first athlete to have his number retired he was number 4. 5.Was inducted in the hall of fame in 1939. 6.Worked with the trouble youth teaching them work |
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