07.02.10 Lou Gehrig Rides Again: Baseball Legend to Movie Star
Guest contributor Bob Campbell writes:
Who knew that Lou Gehrig, the great NY Yankees first baseman, moonlighted as a cowboy movie star in 1938?
And what’s more curious: sports legend Lou Gehrig as a B-movie cowboy star, or that the baseball great also sings in the movie?
Gehrig’s was a genuine American success story. From a family of poor German immigrants, he attended Columbia University, ironically on a football scholarship, and rose to prominence over a 15-season span and 2,130 consecutive games with the NY Yankees - setting several Major League and American League records along the way.
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