Henry lou gehrig biography books
A young reader's portrait of the celebrated athlete whose perseverance earned him the nickname "Iron Horse" recounts his record-making achievements and his.
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The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend&#;the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name.
But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig&#;s life was more complicated&#;and, perhaps, even more heroic&#;than anyone really knew.
Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig&#;s wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood f