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Who did Lou Gehrig play for?

  1. Yankees

  2. Auguste Bartholdi, Gustave Eiffel

  3. Antonio Meucci

  4. Peter Stuyvesant

The correct answer is: Yankees

Lou Gehrig played for the Yankees. Lou Gehrig, also known as the "Iron Horse," was a legendary baseball player who spent his entire professional career with the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939. He is one of the most iconic players in baseball history and is best remembered for his incredible accomplishments on the field and his heartbreaking retirement due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), now commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. The other options provided are not relevant to Lou Gehrig's baseball career and can be eliminated as possible choices.