GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Walter Pipp, the son of the baseball player whom New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig famously replaced at first base, died Wednesday. He was 74.

Thomas Pipp, of Sarasota, Fla., said Monday his brother died of complications arising from Parkinson's disease.

Their father, Wally Pipp, died at 71 in 1965 in Grand Rapids.

Gehrig replaced Pipp in a game on June 1, 1925, because Pipp had a headache. Pipp never got his job back, and Gehrig went on to play in 2,130 consecutive games.