Luckiest Man The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

Name: Luckiest Man The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
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ISBN: 9780743268936

ISBN-10: 0743268938

ISBN-13: 9780743268936

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jonathan Eig

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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 Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up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…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 4/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Prologue



The Survivor



"Babe" Gehrig



At Columbia



The Behemoth of Bing



Goodbye, Mr. Pipp



Coming of Age



Sinner and Saint



Barnstorming Days



A Charmed Life



The Crash



Iron Horse



Courtship



Out of the Shadows



A Night at the Opera



The Next Big Thing



Lord of the Jungle



Strange Times



The Longest Summer



Like a Match Burning Out



Last Chance



Pitchers Once Feared His Bat



The Bitter with the Sweet



Luckiest Man



The Bureaucrat



Our Boy Is Pretty Discouraged



He Was Baseball


Epilogue


Acknowledgments



Lou Gehrig's Career Statistics


Notes


Index