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Lou Gehrig's 2,000 straight game played....
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Lou Gehrig's 2,000 straight game played....

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THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, June 1, 1938

  • Lou Gehrig's 2,000th consecutive game played
  • New York Yankees - MLB baseball - last full season

Page 8 has a one column heading: "Yankees Trounce red Sox, 12-5" with subhead: "Lou Gehrig Plays 2,000th Game" and box scores. (see images) He would end up playing in 2,130 straight games before ending his career due to illness.
Complete with all 14 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, generally good.

Background: On May 31, 1938, New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first player in Major League Baseball history to play in 2,000 consecutive games, an extraordinary feat of ironclad endurance during a 12–5 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. What makes this landmark exceptionally rare is not only that Gehrig was navigating unexplored territory in baseball longevity—having started the streak thirteen years earlier on June 1, 1925—but that he achieved it while still performing at an elite level, going 2-for-4 with a double and driving in two runs. The sheer standard of durability Gehrig set was so unprecedented that his final mark of 2,130 consecutive games stood unbroken for 56 years until Cal Ripken Jr. surpassed it in 1995, cementing this 2,000th game as a monument to one of the most unbreakable streaks in professional sports history.

Category: The 20th Century
Price
$48
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.