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In April of 1923, scout Paul Krichell, a retired catcher, saw Gehrig play at Columbia and announced that he had found the next Babe Ruth. He told the college player to show up at Yankee stadium the very next day. On the 30th of that same month Gehrig signed his first contact. His family would never be poor again.
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