Humility Personified (Continued)

All About Baseball with Byron Copley · Jan 23, 2026 · 26m

A listener asked me to provide more information about the story that I offered in the episode published on January 19, 2026, "Humility Personified," to fill in the details, add color and context, and clear up some questions she had about Lou Gehrig and Wally Pipp. So, this episode, called "Humility Personified (Continued)" hopefully does just that, as it focuses on the impact that Wally Pipp, the man Lou Gehrig replaced as the first basemen of the New York Yankees in 1925, had on his team, his teammate -- Gehrig -- and on his own family. This episode also reveals several conflicting accounts…