Lou Gehrig, Boy of the Sand Lots

Part of the Childhood Of Famous Americans Series, "Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sand Lots" by Guernsey Van Riper Jr. was published in 1949 by Bobbs-Merrill Company. Each volume in the series introduces in story form a famous American as a boy or girl about the reader's own age. The story covers the subject's childhood years, usually from about five to the early teens. Each volume is illustrated with drawings using silhouette figures against outline back grounds and these drawings have become a trademark for the series.

"Lou Gehrig, Boy of the Sand Lots" was the first sports subject Childhood of Famous Americans series. The Story opens on a Christmas scene in the modest Gehrig New York apartment. Louis is so thrilled with his gift, a catcher's mitt, that he doesn't have the heart to tell Mom and Pop (who know nothing of baseball) that the glove wouldn't fit their left-handed son. But the sand-lot gang allowed him to play because he brought along his mitt. Thus began Gehrig's career.

The story of his boyhood has everything —thrills, suspense, fast action, lots of baseball talk, all told against the exciting background of the big city and the sand lots. The emergence of a fine citizen from a boy in the melting pot truly makes a book for all good sports. - Paul Laune did the Silhouette Illustrations for the book.

Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sand Lots by Guernsey Van Riper, Jr.


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