Awards

Records

MLB record: 2,130 consecutive games played; broken in 1995 by Cal Ripken Jr.

MLB record (ongoing): 23 career grand slam home runs

American League record (ongoing): most RBI’s in one season, 184 in 1931

MLB record: most career home runs by a first baseman, 493: broken by Mark McGwire but still holds the American League record

.340 lifetime batting average; 15th highest in baseball history

Hit four home runs in a single game (June 3, 1932); the first American League player to accomplish this feat

Won the Triple Crown in 1934 with a .363 batting average, hit 49 HRs with 165 RBIs

Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939

Yankees retired Gehrig’s uniform number 4. First player in MLB history to be given this honor.