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Thursday marks 75 years from the June 2, 1941, death of Lou Gehrig, the great Yankees baseball player who was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive debilitating and ...
VALHALLA – They come to praise Lou Gehrig, not to bury him. The burial was seen to eight decades ago, on this lovely spot halfway up a soft rise in Section 93 of Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, ...
Lou began experiencing his first neurological symptoms in 1938, right around the time of his 35th birthday. But was ALS the cause of Lou Gehrig’s death? Maybe not, say a group of neurologists ...
Editor’s note: The Post’s Mike Vaccaro recounts the death of Lou Gehrig — who died 80 years ago Wednesday — in his book, “1941: The Greatest Year In Sports.” As great as he’d been ...
MORE: SN archives - Lou Gehrig's death shocks all in the game When did Lou Gehrig deliver the 'Luckiest Man Alive' speech? Gehrig spoke to the fans at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, just over two ...
Tim Cronin, a founding member of Monster Magnet, has died, aged 63. Cronin had been diagnosed earlier this year with ALS ...
VALHALLA – They come to praise Lou Gehrig, not to bury him. The burial was seen to eight decades ago, on this lovely spot halfway up a soft rise in Section 93 of Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, a ...
Gehrig’s Death Shocks All in Game NO BASEBALL death in many a year has shocked the nation as did the passing of Lou Gehrig, one of baseball's wonder men, in his native city of New York on the ...
Lou Gehrig, the New York City boy who grew up to be one of the greatest baseball stars of all time, died last night at his Bronx home. ... His death, nevertheless, came with shocking suddenness.
"If Gehrig had stayed healthy, we'd be debating whether he or Ted Williams was the greatest hitter of all time," says Jonathan Eig, author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. "I ...
When Lou Gehrig dropped out of Columbia University to sign with the New York Yankees a century ago this summer, his mother wasn’t happy about it. A hard-working immigrant from Germany, Christina ...