Lou Gehrig, former captain and first baseman of the New York Yankees, and one of the greatest baseball stars of all time, died at 10 o’clock last night [June 1] at his home, 5204 Delafield Avenue, Fieldston, the Bronx. He would have been 38 years old on June 19.

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The courage and stamina of the one-time ‘‘Iron Man’’ of baseball, one of the idols of American youth, were unable to stand against the slow and inevitable march of a disease which two years ago this month forced Gehrig to retire from the game, after sixteen years in baseball, which saw him create a record of playing in 2,130 consecutive games from June 1, 1925, to May 2, 1939. Death came quietly and peacefully. — New York Herald Tribune, June 3, 1941