With complete respect and reverence to, and for, Lou Gehrig and his July 4, 1939 words to his teammates, the fans in Yankee Stadium, and all the baseball world, and by no means am I in the same ...

Lou Gehrig famously said upon his retirement that he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. This was despite the fact that he had been diagnosed with ALS, a disease that ended ...

"Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig" by Jonathan Eig; Simon & Schuster ($26) Lou Gehrig burst into baseball stardom during the Roaring '20s, endured the Great Depression and soldiered on ...

The Yankee slugger said goodbye to baseball 75 years ago. Lou Gehrig, first baseman for the New York Yankees, is shown at the microphone during Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, a farewell to the slugger, ...

As baseball is to America, Lou Gehrig is to baseball. The man didn’t just play the game; he carved his name into its soul. But it’s not just his game stats that make him one of the greatest American ...