Which Yankee was nicknamed "The Iron Horse"?

Lou Gehrig was the Yankee nicknamed “The Iron Horse.” The nickname referred to his remarkable durability and endurance as the New York Yankees’ regular first baseman, especially during a record-setting consecutive-games streak.

Gehrig played 2,130 consecutive games from 1925 through 1939, a mark that stood for more than half a century. He became one of baseball’s greatest hitters, finishing with 493 home runs, 2,721 hits, and a .340 career batting average. He won the American League Most Valuable Player Award twice and captured the Triple Crown in 1934.

His career ended when he developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the disease later widely known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. In 1939, he delivered his famous farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, calling himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

Gehrig’s consecutive-games record was broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995, but his nickname remains one of baseball’s most recognizable. The Yankees retired his number 4 in 1939, the first number retired in Major League Baseball history.