A Worthy Successor to the 'Iron Horse'

Can Aaron Judge stand with Lou Gehrig?

Yankees Captain, Lou Gehrig, at a game in the Bronx in 1938. The legendary slugger ended his career with a .340 batting average, 1,995 RBIs, and 493 home runs.

By Rick Bueti

On April 30, 1939, Lou Gehrig played his last baseball game. Two years later, the greatest Captain the New York Yankees had ever produced was gone, the victim of a rare degenerative d…