Babe Ruth is typically regarded as the greatest baseball player of all-time. Well that's what I grew up hearing... and thats what various rankings like this, this or this says. But thanks to Pride of the Yankees, I was much more of a Lou Gehrig fan as a kid... and some things never change.
Today marks the anniversary of Gehrig's MLB debut. On June 15th, 1923... the New York Yankees were blowing out the St. Louis Browns, so in the top of the ninth... Miller Huggins called Gehrig's number and inserted him into the game defensively for starting first baseman Wally Pipp.
Figured I'd use this special day to show off a pair of Gehrig cards I picked up on eBay back in February.
ALSA of Oregon and SW Washington
ALS Association St. Louis Regional Chapter
Both ALS Association cards have career statistics and milestones... along with a blurb about Lou Gehrig's Disease. Yet neither card contains a date. If you know any specifics on either of these cards... feel free to comment down below.
I purchased one more Gehrig card back in February. It's part of a Babe Ruth Hologram set I discovered in an old issue of Tuff Stuff (that SumoMenkoMan sent me five years ago):
Inside I saw this ad for the entire Babe Ruth hologram set:
Gehrig is featured on the back of card #2:
1992 Gold Entertainment Babe Ruth Holograms Gold #2
There is a silver version of this card that according to the above ad is more readily available than the gold version. Regardless... both cards can be found in dollar bins.
Happy anniversary Lou! Happy Thursday and sayonara!
13 comments:
He was my favorite Yankee for a long time, until a kid from my hometown named Derek Jeter.
Good Job!
Always cool to have an old magazine advertisement to go with some cards or a set.
Yep, love those mags with cards inside!
Never saw that hologram set, but it looks cool. I use to buy Tuff Stuff all time, I may still have one or two laying around.
It's hard to get your head around the numbers Ruth and Gehrig put up as teammates.
Very cool. Have never seen the cards before, but glad you had picked them up.
Wow, that is a cool anniversary. Nice Gehrig! And I love seeing old copies of Tuff Stuff, especially with Frank Thomas on the cover.
I read Gehrigs biography a few years back and really enjoyed it. Also, always love seeing a Tuff Stuff on the blogs! I didn't get those often, but I did like them since they had pricing for all sports.
I also watched Pride of the Yankees as a kid, and did a big biography project on him in elementary school (maybe 6th grade?)
Of the two, Lou was certainly the better role model.
Nice pickups!
I don't think I fully appreciated Gehrig's career until the last few years as I followed the end of Albert Pujols career. Most of Pujols counting number accomplishments (home runs, hits, doubles, etc) were always him passing Gehrig. Not completely surprising, but Gerhig also played almost 1,000 fewer games than Pujols and they are still relatively close in many categories. Makes you wish Gehrig had been able to play out the end of his career to see his final numbers.
Long rant, sorry.
As for the cards, I like that hologram card. Very nice and very 1990s.
john sharp - i wasn't a fan of jeter when he played... but definitely admired his game and have no problem adding cards of his to my collection now that he's no longer beating the a's and padres
the angels in order - hmmm. maybe that could be a theme for future posts :D
johnnys trading spot - big fan of magazine cards. i think if beckett started doing this, i'd start buying their magazines on a more frequent basis
crocodile - i have a stack of tuff stuffs that i use for references now and then. i actually recycled about 100 becketts and a few tuff stuff issues a few years ago because i didn't have any more space.
hackenbush - i know. i'm sure someone has written about the greatest duos in baseball history before. i'm guessing they're at the top or very close to it.
sumomenkoman - pretty sure i discovered them on someone else's blog. can't remember specifics though. maybe i just stumbled across them on ebay.
sean - it's fun flipping through old issues of tuff stuff. i also liked the magazine called baseball cards.
the lost collector - i especially liked tuff stuff, because they had pricing for kenner slus every other month.
bo - nice. i feel like you commented on my blog before... or maybe i read that tidbit on your blog.
jon - yeah. i liked him more because he seemed like a nice guy who was pretty humble. at least that's how the movie portrayed him
jafronius - thanks. these are just three cards out of a huge stack or 2023 purchases. i probably will never get around to writing about all of them, but i'll show some of them off eventually
the snorting bull - rant away. you bring up an excellent point. i wonder how much longer gehrig would have played had he not been forced to retire. i love 90's hologram cards too!
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