April 30, 1939: Lou Gehrig plays his final game with Yankees – Society for American Baseball...

On April 30, 1939, Lou Gehrig set a MLB record by playing in his 2,130th consecutive and final game for the New York Yankees. A short excerpt from the article:

"The Yankees had won their third consecutive World Series title and their seventh in 16 years that season. On Sunday morning, April 30, 1939, the Yankees’ record stood at five wins and two losses; they would win the American League pennant by 17 games, and earn yet another World Series championship, defeating the Reds in four straight games.

Gehrig, though, began the 1939 campaign in an abysmal slump. In the seven games before April 30, he managed just four hits in 24 at-bats (.167), with five walks, one RBI, and two errors. Everyone seemed to know something was wrong, including Gehrig himself, but he kept going to work every day, hoping things would get better."