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America's Tragic Hero: The Yankees's Lou Gehrig
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History Book: When Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig played in Reading – Reading Eagle
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Lou Gehrig - Wikipedia
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Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, with Yankee teammates at Fenway - Digital Commonwealth
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Babe Ruth paying respects to former teammate Lou Gehrig at Gehrig's funeral in 1941. : r/baseball
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Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth New york yankees, Baseball, Lou gehrig
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Big star on the big screen
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Lou Gehrig Major League debut 100th anniversary
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National Pastime Museum: LOU GEHRIG APPRECIATION DAY AT 75 – Marty Appel
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Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth,New York Yankees, standing in front of a passenger train car in a railroad station - PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine Public Domain Search