This Day in Golf History: June 1

Today brings a baseball-golf hybrid item. On this date in 1925, in a day game against the Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium, the great Iron Horse of baseball, Lou Gehrig, began his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played . Gehrig made an out in pinch-hitting for shortstop Paul (Pee Wee) Wanninger, then started the next game at first base, replacing Wally Pipp, who was in a batting slump. Just 10,000 saw Gehrig’s streak start and the Yankees lose, 5-3. The game only took 1 hour 50 minutes. A golf equivalent to Gehrig’s streak is Tiger Woods’ record of 141 consecutive events without missing the cut, which went from February 1998 to May 2005.