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  1. On May 31, 1925, Lou Gehrig began his
  2. famous streak of playing in 2,130
  3. consecutive games -- as a pinch-hitter.
  4. The next day, regular first baseman Wally
  5. Pipp had a headache. Lou's name was
  6. written in the lineup. It was a costly head-
  7. ache for Wally: Lou played so well that
  8. Wally found himself a regular -- on the
  9. bench! Lou himself ended the streak
  10. almost 14 years later, on May 2, 1939,
  11. when he told his manager, Joe McCarthy,
  12. not to play him because he was tired.
  13. (LouΓÇÖs streak had long before shattered
  14. the previous record of 1,307 consecutive
  15. games, set by Yankee shortstop Everett
  16. Scott.) Lou would soon learn that he was
  17. very sick. He never played again. Cal
  18. Ripken, Junior, broke Lou's consectutive-
  19. game record in 1995.