On June 2, teams across Major League Baseball will recognize the 5th Annual Lou Gehrig Day. June 2 was selected because it was the date Gehrig became the Yankees' starting first baseman. It is also ...

One of the immortal moments in baseball history was not a game-winning home run, dramatic suicide squeeze, or ninth inning bases-loaded strikeout. Lou Gehrig's moving and courageous speech to the ...

"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 ...

Our quote of the day is from the baseball legend known as 'the Iron Horse.' ...

Gehrig didn't take any practice at first base. Moments before the start of the game, Dahlgren shared a private moment with Gehrig, away from the cameras and from the rest of the team. He offered ...

Lou Gehrig's parents, Heinrich and Christina, faced chronic health issues while Lou was a young man. Consequently, Gehrig chose to forgo his football scholarship and education at Columbia University ...

Jimmy Sebring hit the first World Series homer back in 1903 and in the third game of the 118th Fall Classic, Alec Bohm of the Phillies hit the 1,000th. By Tyler Kepner Gwen Petersen, who has Lou ...