Lou Gehrig

Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903. He played for the New York Yankees from 1923-1939 until a big moment changed his entire life. Baseball changed his life Lou Gehrig was born in the Bronx in New York. His full name was Henry Louis “Lou” or “Buster” Gehrig. When he was young, his two sisters died of whooping cough and his brother died at infancy. He was an only child so he helped his mother with choices. In 1923, Lou Gehrig signed a contract with the New York Yankees on April 30. He was a major hit. He batted left, threw left and had 2,721 hits and 493 home runs. Lou Gehrig held the record for the most consecutive games played which was 2,130 games. That record stayed for 56 years. In 1933, he married a woman named Elenor Twitchell…

man who walked the earth around the early to mid 1900’s. The real “Iron Man” is truly named Lou Gehrig and is the real hero. Lou Gehrig was born in a enormous town named New York City. Lou was one of four children and the only one who survived through infancy and the struggles his family went through in his early life. At the age of 11 he was able to swim across the Hudson River (Encyclopedia). Lou was an astonishing athlete as a young boy and continued to grow from there. The Gehrig family did…

everything can change in the blink of an eye. The only people that know this have suffered from a debilitating disease. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, is a very deadly disease that may be currently affecting 30,000 Americans by damaging motor control in the body. Lou Gehrig was an American legend. Very few baseball players were as good as he was, and even fewer were as humble. He believed in working hard and never giving up; because of his morals, he was a baseball great and the country…

The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony.…

“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” The beloved baseball star Lou Gehrig once said. Lou Gehrig was an amazing baseball player. He was known for his hard work and iron will. Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse of the New York Yankees, he became one of the best in baseball at a young age, and sadly, he retired young from a deadly disease, that later killed him. Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903 in New York, at an early age He helped his mom run errands while she was…

There are many people that have inspired my life but there is only one that has had the greatest impact on my life. That person is the one and the only, the legend, the "Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig has done many inspirational things in his life like living with Lou Gehrig 's disease, which is also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. He was diagnosed with this rare disease on his thirty-sixth birthday in the year 1939. This disease is a progressive neurological disorder. The…

During 1938 baseball season, a great and prominent baseball player named Lou Gehrig noticed his performance on and off the field was not what it was supposed to be. He found himself stumbling over curbs and when running bases, he was more tired than usual, and he was fumbling the ball. On June 19, 1939, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on his thirty-sixth birthday. In the same year, Lou Gehrig retired from baseball, still considering himself to be the luckiest man alive…

MLB player Lou Gehrig. Lou was born on June 19, 1903; he sadly lost his life on June 2, 1941. Lou had a very successful life; he is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Lou also fought in World War II. He had this disease called ALS, which is also often called Lou Gherigs disease. This disease makes you very weak in the muscles where they can’t function anymore. He had this ongoing disease for around two years. In baseball, he had the nickname the Iron Horse because he…

Nancy Ibarra Mrs. Blevens ERWC October 19, 2016 ALS/CTE/Head Trauma Many sports involve physical contact, athletes usually start at a young age, so when they play a sport in their life, they are bound to fall in love with it. “ALS” is the most common disease in sports, athletes are usually the ones at greater risk of developing “ALS”. Lou Gehrig was a baseball player who developed “ALS” at the highlight of his career, making this…

3) Name or Diagnosis: what we call it The name of the disease is called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is also known as the Lou Gehrig disease. Most people in this time now know the disease as (ALS). 4) Outcome or Prognosis: what will happen The outcome that will happen to Stephen Hawking is that he has ALS is that his body is paralyze. His early stage of ALS, he had a hard time walking and speaking. He slowly started to lose the ability to read and write. He must have a person help…