✦—————♛—————✦

This Day In History: May 2nd

Lou Gehrig's 2,130-game streak ended.

On this day in 1939, New York Yankee great Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of American baseball, ended his streak of consecutive games played (2,130), setting a record until 1995, when it was broken by Cal Ripken, Jr.

#History