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* Lou Creekmur ( 1927 – 2009 ), Woodbridge HS graduate who played in the NFL for the Detroit Lions, and was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame.
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But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.
On July 17,, Williams became the fifth player ever to hit 400 home runs, following Mel Ott in 1941, Jimmie Foxx in 1938, Lou Gehrig in 1936, and Babe Ruth in 1927.
Mattingly did just as well in 1986, leading the league with 238 hits, 53 doubles ( to date, both are single-season franchise records, having broken Earle Combs ' 231 and Lou Gehrig's 52 respectively ; both had been set in 1927 ), 388 total bases, and a. 573 slugging percentage.
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# Lou Gehrig: 1, 662 ( 1927 )
Murderers ’ Row was the nickname given to the New York Yankees baseball team of the late 1920s, in particular the first six hitters in the 1927 team lineup: Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri.
The term was eternally associated with the beginning of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Yankee teams beginning in the mid-1920s, and is commonly recognized to refer specifically to the core of the 1927 Yankee hitting lineup.
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One of the oldest buildings that remains is the Dromana Hotel but it was a much more beautiful building before Lou Carrigg remodelled it in 1927.
He was part of the famed " Murderers ' Row " Yankee batting lineup of the late 1920s ( most notably the legendary 1927 team ), along with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Bob Meusel.
The couple had three children: Mary Lou ( 1922 ), Jean Ann ( 1925 ), and Neal ( 1927 ).
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Aldridge also played in the 1927 World Series, losing the second game of the series 6 – 2 as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig led the New York Yankees to a sweep of the Pirates in four games.
On May 8, 2010, he became the second Yankees player to hit three home runs in one game against the Boston Red Sox, joining Lou Gehrig, who accomplished the feat on June 23, 1927.
On September 1, 1927, Lou Burroughs and Al Kahn began a small business servicing radio receivers in South Bend, Indiana.
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* 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player
* 1949 – Lou Martin, Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer ( d. 2012 )
* 1917 – Lou van Burg, Dutch singer and game show host ( d. 1986 )
* 1917 – Lou Monte, American singer ( d. 1989 )
* 1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball player and manager
* 2001 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1917 )
* 1916 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler ( d. 2002 )
His half-brother was Charles Einstein ( 1926 – 2007 ), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou Grant.
* 1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer ( d. 2006 )
* 1968 – The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
* 1943 – Lou Christie, American singer
He was 3rd in the AL in slugging percentage (. 600 ) – behind Jimmie Foxx and Lou Gehrig, but ahead of Babe Ruth, and in RBIs ( 139 ), 6th in batting average (. 339 ), 7th in home runs ( 26 ), and 9th in on base percentage (. 404 ).
* 1989 – Lou Monte, Italian-American singer ( b. 1917 )
* 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean ( she is a passenger ; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic ).
* 1939 – Lou Brock, American baseball player
* 1924 – Lou Groza, American football player ( d. 2000 )
* 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself " The luckiest man on the face of the earth " as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
* 1932 – Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively.
* 1913 – Lou Darvas, American cartoonist ( d. 1987 )
* 1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
* 1968 – Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
* 1937 – Lou Holtz, American football coach
* 1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
* 1965 – Mary Lou Lord, American singer / songwriter
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