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 ...

Eighty years after he was laid to rest, Lou Gehrig's Westchester grave could soon see more visitors, thanks to Lou Gehrig Day across baseball.

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 ...

Gehrig delivered a farewell speech now known as the "Luckiest Man Alive" speech to Yankee Stadium fans in 1939, two weeks after he was diagnosed with ALS, in an event labeled Lou Gehrig Day.

Eighty years after he was laid to rest, Lou Gehrig's Westchester grave could soon see more visitors, thanks to Lou Gehrig Day across baseball.

After Lou Gehrig, 37, succumbed June 2, 1941, to ALS, The Sporting News, in addition to multiple stories about "the Iron Horse," wrote in an unsigned editorial: "Gehrig's baseball deeds were ...

The first visitor to the Gehrig home was Ed Barrow, Yankee president, who had a guiding hand in Lou’s career. A spokesman for the family said that they had indications death was coming close ...

"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.

This story was originally published June 28, 2009 Lou Gehrig walked unsteadily to the microphone on that sweltering afternoon, a uniform once sewn to fit his hulking frame now hanging loosely, his … ...

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 evening of June 2. It wasn't so much ...