Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Charles Leonard Gehringer aka the Mechanical Man (May 11, 1903 - January 21, 1993) was a professional baseball player. Gehringer played 19 big league seasons from 1924 - 1942, all with the Detroit Tigers. Considered by most to be one of the greatest second basemen of all time, Gehringer was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.