The Iron Horse played 2,130 consecutive games for the New York Yankees from 1925 to 1939, a record that stood for 56 years. Gehrig compiled a .340 career batting average with 1,995 RBIs and 493 home runs before ALS — now known as Lou Gehrig disease — ended his career at age 36.
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