Definitions for Gehrig
ˈgɛr ɪggehrig

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gehrig, Lou Gehrig, Henry Louis Gehrignoun

   baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)

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1. gehrig

   Henry Louis Gehrig (born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig ; June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941) was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname "the Iron Horse". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career .340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). He still has the highest ratio of runs scored plus runs batted in per 100 plate appearances (35.08) and per 100 games (156.7) among Hall of Fame players. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team. A native of New York City and a student at Columbia University, Gehrig signed with the Yankees on April 29, 1923. He set several major-league records during his career, including the most career grand slams (23; since broken by Alex Rodriguez) and most consecutive games played (2,130), a record that stood for 56 years and was long considered unbreakable until surpassed by Cal Ripken Jr., in 1995. Gehrig's consecutive game streak ended on May 2, 1939, when he voluntarily took himself out of the lineup, stunning both players and fans, after his performance on the field became hampered by an undiagnosed ailment subsequently confirmed to be amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neuromuscular illness; it is now commonly referred to in North America as "Lou Gehrig's disease".The disease forced him to retire at age 36, and claimed his life two years later. The pathos of his farewell from baseball was capped off by his iconic 1939 "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" speech at Yankee Stadium. In 1969, the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted Gehrig the greatest first baseman of all time, and he was the leading vote-getter on the MLB All-Century Team chosen by fans in 1999. A monument in Gehrig's honor, originally dedicated by the Yankees in 1941, currently resides in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to the MLB player who best exhibits Gehrig's integrity and character.

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1. gehrig

   Gehrig is usually a reference to the late American professional baseball player Lou Gehrig. He played his entire 17-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees. He was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him the nickname "The Iron Horse". He is best known for his record-setting streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games and his battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which is now commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

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1. GEHRIG

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gehrig is ranked #22573 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gehrig surname appeared 1,138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gehrig.
   
   94.7% or 1,078 total occurrences were White.
   3.6% or 42 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.6% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.4% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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How to pronounce Gehrig?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Gehrig in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Gehrig in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Gehrig in a Sentence

1. Larry Gatlin:

   Folks, I feel like I have a cold, and not even a bad cold at that. I even hit a few golf balls before dinner, at this moment I feel like Lou Gehrig when he said, 'Today I considermyself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

2. Wash Westmoreland:

   Many of the neurological appointments that Still Alice had in the book echoed appointments that Richard Glatzer had had when they were testing to see if Richard Glatzer'd had a stroke — like what's today's date, where are we, all that stuff. It was eerily similar, rich is an incredibly strong person, and never let Lou Gehrig Disease get him down. He always wanted to keep life as normal as possible.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Gehrig
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehrig
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html