Henry Louis Gehrig was born on June 19, 1903 to Wilhelm Heinrich Gehrig and Anna Christina Fack , poor German immigrants who moved to the United States with barely any money in their pockets and no friends or relatives to meet them. Lou’s parents met in 1901 and gave birth to their first child on May 26, 1902. Their daughter Anna Christina would unfortunately die as an infant. At the time, everything was changing. Houses began using electric light bulbs, Teddy Roosevelt, the youngest President yet, took office, and a new sport called baseball began sneaking up on the ever-popular horse racing. Baseball assimilated nicely into New York’s alleys and sandlots.