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PO Box 7
273 Lakeview Avenue
Valhalla, NY 10595 |
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| LOU & ELEANOR GEHRIG |
| Head south again on Ossipee Avenue to where the road forms a circle. Go left around the circle. Stop in front of a low hedge. On your left, through the hedge, directly behind the Winkhaus monument, is a sizeable pale pink (almost white) granite memorial with a relief of grapevines on a bronze plaque. This delacately-adorned stone marks the resting place of one of the most outstanding players in the history of American baseball, Louis Henry Gehrig and his wife, Eleanor. Gehrigh, a New York Yankee for his entire major league career, played in seven World Series and compiled a lifetime batting average of .340 and consistently set new hitting records, often edging out fellow teammate Babe Ruth. The first baseman also set a major league record for playing 2,130 games in a row, earning him the name "The Iron Horse". In 1939, Gehrig's golden era came to an end when the Yankee captain contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare and incurable nerve disease (since nicknamed "Lou Gehrig's disease"). Gehrig was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame the same year. Two weeks before his 38th birthday, the "Iron Horse" lost his valiant fight and died quietly in his Riverdale home. |
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