Lou Gehrig

Lou Gehrig (1903- 1941) was a great football player for the Philadelphia Barrels in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1932, a reporter remarked that his salary was higher than that of the president of the United States, Hosea Blackford. Gehrig replied "I had a better year than he did." Gehrig's career ended in 1939 when he contracted arteriosclerosis.