{"id":319252,"date":"2022-11-16T23:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=319252"},"modified":"2022-11-26T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:04:12","slug":"tupatalk-what-lou-gehrig-s-story-teaches-us-about-dealing-with-life-s-curveballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tupatalk-what-lou-gehrig-s-story-teaches-us-about-dealing-with-life-s-curveballs","title":{"rendered":"TupaTalk: What Lou Gehrig&#8217;s story teaches us about dealing with life&#8217;s curveballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was, perhaps, the most dramatic dugout moment in baseball history. Gentle giant Lou Gehrig planted himself on the Yankee bench, upper body slumped forward, eyes looking down. He had just told manager Joe McCarthy to scratch him out of the lineup for that day&#8217;s game, ending a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played lasting from 1925-39. After just eight games into the 1939 season, Gehrig was batting just .143 (4-for-28) with no homers and one RBI. Unknown at the time, Gehrig was afflicted with a terminal, paralyzing disease that would kill him two years later. He had taken his warmups at first base the morning of May 2, 1939, but decided he just couldn&#8217;t play anymore. So, without warning, he voluntarily told McCarthy to replace him. Writer Art Hill later described in his book &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care If I Never Come Back,&#8221; this heart-wrenching moment in baseball history when the public announcer read the Yankee lineup for that game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was, perhaps, the most dramatic dugout moment in baseball history. Gentle giant Lou Gehrig planted himself on the Yankee bench, upper body slumped forward, eyes looking down. He had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}