Today, the name “Lou Gehrig” stands for so much more than a baseball player, even as excellent a player he was. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the disease which tragically took his life, was often ...

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 ...

Major League Baseball, in coordination with all 30 Clubs, will observe the sixth annual Lou Gehrig Day on June 2nd — a date carrying the significance of both the 1925 game when Gehrig became 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 ...

I have a confession to make and I know for certain this will upset some of you, but hey, differences of opinion in today’s world do not have to be a bad thing. I remember in my college days we could ...

Major League Baseball, in coordination with all 30 Clubs, will observe the sixth annual Lou Gehrig Day on June 2 -- a date carrying the significance of both the 1925 game when Gehrig became the ...