1939 At Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig's streak and career comes to end as the 'Iron Horse' plays his final game going 0-for-4 against the Senators. The Yankees first baseman played in 2,130 consecutive games and compiled a .340 batting average with 490 home runs during his 17 seasons with the Yankees.

One of the saddest days in baseball history.

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The first Gehrig card I purchased:



Some others...

What a great ballplayer and greater human being!!

I'll toast the iron horse...to a great ballplayer...and an even greater man!

Gehrig was the start of my vintage card collecting after watching "Pride of the Yankees"

A few Gehrig pieces:

Government postcard, 1937:



Signed photo, taken before his 2000th consecutive game:



Ticket to Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. July 4, 1939:



1939 World Series program, signed on inside page:



Postcard mailed July 12, 1940, bearing rubber-stamped signature (Gehrig could no longer write):

Tarzan Lou...

One of the very few athletes who can rightly be considered a hero.

I really need to get scans of my Gehrig collection to post. Always looking for low grade, affordable items to add.

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Dang it, David McDonald... you just have to keep showing me that awesome signed Goudey to get me jealous!

493 home runs to be exact...

he was a gem.

Columbia Football Program from 1922 featuring the Iron Horse...

A man in every sense of the word: