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I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Lou Gehrig

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Lou Gehrig
Age: 37 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 19
Died: 1941
Died: June 2
Baseball Player
Manhattan borough
New York City
Iron Horse
Henry Louis Gehrig
Henry Louis Lou Gehrig
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