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Lou Gehrig was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 9, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 7, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 16, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 20, 2008	Good article reassessment	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 4, 2004, July 4, 2007, June 19, 2009, June 19, 2012, June 19, 2016, June 19, 2019, and June 19, 2024.
Current status: Former good article nominee

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