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Lou Gehrig at Columbia

Lou Gehrig at Columbia
Photo: Columbiana Archive

Columbia University student Lou Gehrig at bat on South Field in 1922. Gehrig joined the New York Yankees in 1925 and remained a Yankee until his retirement in 1939. He is remembered as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Speaking of baseball, Columbia University's Baker Field (at 215th Street in upper Manhattan) was the site of the nation's first televised sports event, a baseball game between Columbia and Princeton universities, May 17, 1939, broadcast by NBC.

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Columbia University Computing History Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia.edu This page created: January 2001 Last update: 27 March 2021