"I'm not a headline guy and we may as well face it. I'm just the guy who's in there every day, the fellow who follows Babe in the batting order." — Lou Gehrig
Source
Author
Publisher
Date
Page
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Ron Smith
St. Louis: The Sporting News Publishing Co.
1998
20
"Lou was the most valuable player the Yankees ever had because he was the prime source of their greatest asset—an implicit confidence in themselves and every man on the club." — Sportswriter Stanley Frank