Lou Gehrig scrapbooks: scrapbook, 1920-1942.

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Lou Gehrig scrapbooks: scrapbook, 1920-1942.

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Two scrapbooks created by Eleanor Gehrig, concentrating on the career of her husband, Lou Gehrig. The volumes contain newspaper clippings, newspaper photos, magazine articles, magazine photos, black-and-white photos, cartoons, correspondence, game accounts, box scores, etc. Items of note in vol. 1 include a few black-and-white photos of Gehrig and his wife, a reproduction photo of Gehrig's 1922 high school football team mounted on card board, articles on Gehrig playing football and baseball at Columbia University, and articles on Gehrigs minor league career. Items of note in vol. 2 include black-and-white photos of Gehrig in Egypt, Italy, and at the opening of the movie "Pride of the Yankees", articles about the end of his streak, his illness, and his death.

scrapbook v.1 (.64 cu. ft.)scrapbook v.2 (.51 cu. ft.)

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Gehrig, Lou, 1903-1941

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Lou Gehrig played his entire career with the New York Yankees (1923-1939). He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. From the description of Letter, [1939-1941]. (National Baseball Hall of Fame). WorldCat record id: 47294733 ...

Gehrig, Eleanor, 1904-1984

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Eleanor Grace Twitchell was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 6, 1904 to parents Frank Twitchell and Nellie Mulvaney Twitchell. Eleanor worked from March 1929 until 1931 as the secretary to the general manager at Chicago’s branch of Saks Fifth Avenue. Then she found work as a secretary for the Century of Progress—the planning committee for the upcoming Chicago World’s Fair. She may have met Lou at a party in the fall of 1927, or at Comiskey Park, which Eleanor frequented as a guest of the G...

New York Yankees (Baseball team)

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The club that became the New York Yankees started as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901. American League President Ban Johnson wanted a club in New York and, after outmaneuvering the politically influential New York Giants, who did not want a competing team, Johnson moved the Orioles to New York. The first ten years of its existence, the team did not do well, contending for the pennant during only one season. In 1914, Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston purchased the team. This collection da...