Lou Gehrig

The year was 1939. Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. A gallon of gas cost 10 cents, the average price of a new car was $700[...]

Seventy-five years ago, Lou Gehrig told New York Yankee fans that he'd been given a "bad break" but still considered himself "the luckiest man on[...]

  On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig said good-bye to the game and his fans after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a[...]