{"id":5297,"date":"2026-06-15T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:08:08","slug":"lou-gehrigs-first-baseball-game-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5297","title":{"rendered":"Lou Gehrig&#8217;s First Baseball Game &#8211; 1923"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12510\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12510\" class=\"wp-image-12510 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lou-Gehrig-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"That's Lou Gehrig Sliding into Home Plate\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s Lou Gehrig Sliding into Home Plate!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lou Gehrig in 1923 played the first of 2,130 baseball games with the New York Yankees<\/strong>. He played his last game on April 30, 1939. Young children could read <em>Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man<\/em> by David A. Adler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Gehrig in 1923 played the first of 2,130 baseball games with the New York Yankees. He played his last game on April 30, 1939. Young children could read Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4840,306,5589,305,307],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4840","tag-first-baseball-game","tag-june-1","tag-lou-gehrig","tag-new-york-yankees","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29423,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/29423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}