The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (518 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073GNM331 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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The fascinating story of baseball's most legendary "Iron Men", Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played. Few feats in sports history have generated more acclaim. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age 21, he had no idea he'd beat the historic record of playing 2,130 games in a row set by Lou Gehrig, the fabled "Iron Horse" of the New York Yankees. The question looms: Was it harder for Ripken or Gehrig to play every day for so long? The length of seasons, the number of teams in the major leagues, the inclusion of nonwhite players, travel, technology, and even media are all part of the equation. Along the way Eisenberg dives deep into the history of the record and offers a portrait of t
A Unique Baseball Book on A Different Subject First of all this is not a book solely about the consecutive game playing streaks of Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripken Jr. The vast majority of the book focuses on games in which the streak of each man was endangered due to illness or injury. The remainder of the book deals with consecutive game playing streaks of Dale Murphy, Steve Garvey, Billy Williams, and a few others who managed to put together consecutive game playing streaks of their own. Emphasis is also placed on Everett Scott who preceded Lou Gehrig w. This is Eisenberg's White Album This is an ambitious and monumental accomplishment by John Eisenbergas I say, his White Album. As he recounts in the Acknowledgements, this book took longer for him to write than any of his others. If you read The Streak, you'll see why! The sheer amount of research and work that he put into it might even rival the endurance and fortitude of a Gehrig or Ripken. Even though I am not much of baseball fan (no doubt a by-product of rooting for the Texas Rangers all my life) Eisenberg's Streak is so well writ. Playing every day, the most honorable thing a baseball player can do Compiling a consecutive-games-played streak, merely requires showing up. It doesn't require prowess, production or heroics. Yet, a significant playing streak is one of the most difficult feats in baseball. Only 7 players have played in 1,000 or more consecutive games.Cal Ripken Jr. (2,632 games) and Lou Gehrig (2,130 games) are the epitome of consecutive game streaks. Ripken started his streak on May 3, 1982 and voluntarily ended it on Sept. 19, 1998. As Ripken approached Gehrig's record in 1995, Gehrig'