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The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record
By Eisenberg, John
- ISBN
- 9780544107670 9780544103979
- Publisher
- Houghton Harcourt
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Reviewed on April 1, 2017 | arts and humanities
On May 2, 1939, Yankees manager Joe McCarthy agreed to leave a slumping and (though it wasn't known at the time, mortally ill) Lou Gehrig on the bench for a day. This ended his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played and was thought to be a record for the ages. Until it wasn't, as over a half century later Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles put the Iron Horse ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
