    
Title: Babe Ruth Description: Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth; Jr., February 6, 1895-August 16, 1948) hugging Lou Gehrig (Henry Louis Gehrig; June 19, 1903-June 2, 1941) in Yankee Stadium on "Lou Gehrig Day" July 4, 1939, during a tribute to the retiring baseball star; although struck with a fatal disease at the age of thirty-nine (now called Lou Gehrig's Disease), he told the crowd, "I'm the luckiest man on the face of the earth;" he was called "The Iron Horse" because of his durability; Gehrig was profiled by Gary Cooper (Academy Award) in a 1942 film, Pride of the Yankees; Location: New York, New York, 1939 Category: Sports Topic: Baseball Keywords: baseball, baseball players, diseases, Lou Gehrig, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Pride of the Yankees, the Iron Horse, 1930s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1350 x 1311 (1.77 MPixels) (1.03) Print Size: 11.4 x 11.1 cm; 4.5 x 4.4 inches File Size: 5.07 MB (5,315,024 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000096680 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
