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Henry Louis Gehrig or famously known as Lou Gehrig was an American baseball first baseman who played his entire career for Major League Baseball team, New York Yankees. He made his MLB debut in 1923 and played until 1939.

Gehrig was named in the baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.

He died at the young age of 37 due to ALS in 1941.

Lou Gehrig’s Net worth and Salary

A talented and Baseball legend, Lou Gehrig has accumulated huge earnings over the course of his playing career.

His net worth is not known as he passed away almost 8 decades earlier.

However, it was released by some source that his annual salary he received from the New York Yankees in 1937 was around $39,000 and $35,000 in 1938.

He was the highest-paid MLB player of that time.

He is reported to have made $361,500 in earnings from his salary in his MLB career.

So it can assume that his net worth could be in the range of $ 450,000 to $ 500,000.