August 16, 1933
It was on this day back in 1933,
that New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig played in his 1309th
consecutive game, breaking the previous record of 1308 set by Everett Scott.
Gehrig would go on to play 2130 straight games before being forced to retire in
1939 after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His record
earned him the nickname “The Iron Horse”, and it would go unbroken for 56 years
before the Baltimore Orioles’ Cal Ripken would pass it in 1995.
The Yankees lost the game to the
St. Louis Browns by a score of 7-6.
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