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Lou Gehrig was the first athlete to appear on a box of Wheaties (pic below). Lou Gehrig was the first baseball player to have his uniform number retired. Lou Gehrig was the first first-baseman in the first All-Star Game ever played.
Lou Gehrig was the first ballplayer to appear in 2, consecutive games. Lou Gehrig was the first player to hit twenty-plus grand slams across his career -- we could EASILY write fifty more Gehrig firsts, easily, we won't, but we do hope you enjoy the following brief Lou Gehrig biography by Baseball Almanac:
Lou Gehrig on the back of a Wheaties Box | Wheaties Cereal |
LOU GEHRIG BIOGRAPHY
At no other time in baseball history, or any other sports history, has an athlete gone on to achieve the immortality that Lou Gehrig did while playing in the shadow of others.
But such was the case for "The Iron Horse", who put up awesome numbers while leading the Yankees to championships but had the misfortune to first be a teammat
