Babe Ruth Was Right About Lou Gehrig But Nobody Listened

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  @miiketokles · 3 months ago

  My grandfather was born in 1925, he lived in hoboken new jersey ubtil 1973, he told me he saw babe and Lou play once when he was 8 or 9 in 1933. Could you imagine that.

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• JO

  @JohnSmith-zw8vp · 4 months ago

  The Pride of the Yankees!

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• RO

  @Rocky_Maher · 1 month ago (edited)

  The issue I take with this video and Ruth&apos;s alleged&quot;prophecy&quot; is that playing everyday is not what allowed for his steep decline. It was ALS. He didn&apos;t break down from playing everyday, ALS robbed him of his motor skills.<br><br>Gehrig was not diagnosed until June 1939, &nbsp;but his 1938 season at age 34-35 already looked wrong to people and players close to that watched him every day. He struggled through stretches of that season, switched to a lighter bat, and began relying more on his hands and arms rather than driving the ball with his whole body. One contemporary sportswriter wrote that Gehrig still had the same swing, but “the ball doesn’t go anywhere.” Even so, he still finished 1938 with .295, 29 home runs, and 114 RBI. A fine season for most players, but a major drop for Gehrig from his previous season.<br><br>Gehrig’s 1938 season is especially important because it was not a simple, straight-line decline. An extended drought in July and August led some observers to wonder whether the Iron Horse was finally in decline. He remarkably found one last surge. In mid-August, Gehrig hit .419 with seven home runs, seven doubles, and 27 RBI over a 15-game stretch, briefly looking like the old Gehrig again. The late-season run is one of the most remarkable parts of his final full season.<br><br>The mid-season slump and recovery actually strengthens the argument that ALS was already affecting him before the official diagnosis. A normal aging decline usually does not look like that: sudden physical weakness, loss of drive in the ball, followed by a brief burst that seemed almost like a last rally.<br><br>By 1939, there was no hiding it. Gehrig opened the season batting only .143 with one RBI and no extra-base hits through the Yankees’ first eight games. On May 2, 1939, he removed himself from the lineup, ending his record consecutive-games streak at 2,130 games, and never appearing in another game.

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• DU

  @durasaxon5131 · 4 months ago

  Lou Gehrig / <br>&apos;THE IRON HORSE&apos;

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• FL

  @FlyboysMumSJ · 1 month ago

  The streak didn’t kill Gehrig. &nbsp;It didn’t give him ALS. &nbsp;Ruth had simple aging in mind when he said that; he couldn’t have contemplated anything as horrific as the disease that would eventually end Gehrig’s career. &nbsp;He was saying, in essence, “Time comes for us all.” &nbsp;Unfortunately, something much worse came for Lou Gehrig, and it would have done so even if he hadn’t played through injuries and had allowed himself to rest.

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• MA

  @mattmaharg1941 · 4 months ago

  Anyone wonder how long the Gehrig streak coulve or would have gone had he had no injuries or illness? &nbsp;He probably would&apos;ve signed up for the military in WWII, so maybe that streak would&apos;ve been stopped then, hard to tell. &nbsp;But Babe Ruth may have been on to something right when he suggested Gehrig needed to rest some, especially as he aged. But all those nagging injuries, cracked ribs, broken fingers, hell that for sure would have stopped me. Sad that Ruth and Gehrig had the rift over some comment about Gehrig&apos;s mother. &nbsp;Probably wasn&apos;t worth making such a big deal or rift over.

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• ML

  @mlbw1966 · 3 months ago

  LEGENDARY BASEBALL PLAYERS NEVER DIE.<br>RIP BABE RUTH<br>RIP LOU GEHRIG &nbsp;⚾️

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• MR

  @MrAschiffIndieRock · 4 months ago

  I don&apos;t think playing in over 2,000 games led to Lou getting ALS

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• MI

  @miiketokles · 3 months ago

  Only 3 others shared this secret...our friends man at arms, orko and the sorceres...

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• JO

  @johnscialfa7391 · 1 day ago

  there&apos;s something wrong about the rift between the two of the two.. it&apos;s always been said that it was about something that Lou Gehrig&apos;s mother said about babe&apos;s stepdaughter and the way she dressed

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  @srinivastssrao9554 · 8 days ago

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• ST

  @StarRiders100 · 3 months ago

  Ruth did not mean predict that Gehrig would die in a few years. &nbsp;Ruth only meant that Geghrig was shortening his career by a few years by not taking a rest every once a while. &nbsp; And what is this &quot;abnormally&quot; devoted to his mother. &nbsp;How about &quot;especially&quot; devoted. &nbsp;&quot;Abnormally&quot; devoted hints at something very dark and there is no reason to go there.

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