1928 Exhibit Supply Co. LOU GEHRIG Incredible Card! RARE Large-format baseball card VINTAGE HOF NY YANKEES! Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 898.89 Time Left - Bid Count 26 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, August 17, 2008 End Time Sunday, August 24, 2008 Location Saint Petersburg, Florida See more about '1928 Exhibit Supply Co. LOU GEHRIG Incredible Card!' Description Incredible early baseball card of one of the greatest of all-time.  1928 Exhibit Supply Co. LOU GEHRIG in beautiful condition!  This is a rare find of an antique large-format baseball card of the Legendary New York Yankees Hall Of Fame 1st baseman.  Please view images enlarged for detail and feel free to email with any questions.  Be sure to check out our other auctions for more incredible large-format baseball cards from Baseball's Glory Days all with a Low Minimum and NO RESERVE! ENJOY! "The Iron Horse" LOU GEHRIG was an authentic baseball hero during his playing days and attained legendary status from his illness and early death. Gehrig's numbers are almost too impressive to believe! His 2,130 consecutive games stood for more than a half century before Cal Ripken Jr. finally surpassed it. His lifetime batting average was .340 and he amassed more than 400 total bases on five occassions. Only fifteen men have ever achieved this single-season mark and the nearest competitors are Chuck Klein who did it three times and Babe Ruth who achieved it twice. Gehrig is also one of only two players with more than 100 extra-base hits in more than one season. In his 13 full seasons, Gehrig averaged 147 RBIs. No player even reached 147 RBIs again until George Foster managed it four decades later. However, Gehrig managed to do this behind two of baseball's greatest "base cleaners" - Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. Gehrig also stole home 15 times and holds the all-time record for career grand slams with 23. In 34 World Series games he batted .361 with 10 homers, 8 doubles, and 35 RBIs. Ruth and Gehrig dominated the baseball headlines in 1927 in a way two players had never done before and never did again until the year of Sosa and McGwire. In 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs, breaking his old record of 59, and Gehrig clouted 47, more than anyone had ever hit outside of Ruth. As late as August 10th, Gehrig had more homers than the Babe, but Ruth's closing kick was spectacular. Together they outhomered every team in baseball except one. Gehrig also hit .373 and led the league with 52 doubles and 175 RBIs on his way to being named American League MVP. On June 3, 1932, Gehrig became the first American Leaguer to hit four home runs in one game. Only a great over the wall catch by Al Simmons kept him from hitting his fifth. Gehrig won the Triple Crown in 1934 with 49 home runs, 165 RBIs, and a .363 batting average. He was again named AL MVP in 1936 by leading the league in home runs, runs scored, RBIs, and on-base and slugging percentages while hitting .354 and led the Yankees to a World Series victory. After a poor performance in 1938 and playing in only 8 games in 1939, the Yankee captain removed himself from the lineup. A staple at first base for 14 years, Gehrig had played regardless of illness or broken bones. It took a very rare degenerative disease - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to get Gehrig off the field. Gehrig was enshrined in Baseball's Immortal Hall Of Fame that December and died at the age of 38 in 1941. Gehrig's speech on July 4, 1939: "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, send you a gift . . . that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies . . . that's something. So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for." Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!