Lou Gehrig earned his nickname as "The Iron Horse" be playing every day, season after season, with the New York Yankees. In 1939, he extended his own Major League record by playing in 2,130 consecutive games, a record not broken until Cal Ripken Jr. surpassed the Gehrig streak in 1996. Offered is a ticket stub to the July 4, 1941, Lou Gehrig Memorial, an event scheduled to mark the placement of the Lou Gehrig monument in center field at Yankee Stadium. The Hall of Fame first baseman teamed with Babe Ruth to give the New York Yankees an unprecedented power duo in the 1920s and 1930s. Gehrig helped the Yankees to six World Championships as he belted 493 homers, hit .340 lifetime, won a Triple Crown, and was a 2-time AL MVP. When Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) forced Gehrig to retire from playing in 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day was held at Yankee Stadium on July 4th that year, the occasion of his poignant and iconic speech when he called himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Gehrig died on June 2, 1941, from ALS, and the Yankees scheduled a Lou Gehrig Memorial Game on July 4th, 1941, two years to the day after his famous Farewell Speech. The game was rained out and rescheduled as part of a doubleheader on July 6th, and 68,948 fans attended the games when the Lou Gehrig monument was unveiled. The Yankees swept the doubleheader, but the game results were secondary to the honoring of the universally respected and vastly popular Gehrig. The ticket stub, which contains an image of Gehrig, has been encapsulated and graded PSA Good 2. The 2.5x3.25" stub has enhanced importance since in 2021 baseball instituted the inaugural, and now annual, Lou Gehrig Day on June 2nd, the date when he became the regular Yankee first baseman in 1925, and the date of his death in 1941.