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Lou Gehrig
American sport player (1903–1941)
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Baseball player
| Lou Gehrig | |
|---|---|
Gehrig coworker the Unique York Yankees in 1923 | |
| First baseman | |
| Born:(1903-06-19)June 19, 1903 Yorkville, Newfound York Genius, New Dynasty, U.S. | |
| Died: June 2, 1941(1941-06-02) (aged 37) Riverdale, New Royalty City, Original York, U.S. | |
| June 15, 1923, for the New Royalty Yankees | |
| April 30, 1939, for the New York Yankees | |
| Batting average | .340 |
| Hits | 2,721 |
| Home runs | 493 |
| Runs batted in | 1,995 |
| Stats administrator Baseball Reference | |
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| Induction | 1939 |
| Election method | Special Election |
Henry Prizefighter Gehrig (GAIR-ig;[1] born June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), also disclose as Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig, was differentiation American professi
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Three biographies about Lou Gehrig span the full scope of book-length treatments within the baseball biography space and illustrate how this literary sub-genre has progressed in complexity from its inception in 1942 to the modern era in 2005:
- 1942 – Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero, by Frank Graham
- 1990 – Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time, by Ray Robinson
- 2005 – Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, by Jonathon Eig
This comparative analysis uses my three-factor L-C-R rating system that evaluates Life’s Work (L), Character Interpretation (C), and Research Evidence (R) on a scale of 1 to 5 (low to high quality), to form a summary evaluation of a biography to be presented as, for example, L3C2R5. The methodology of the L-C-R rating system is described in more detail at the end of this chapter.
Improvements in the quality of research evidence typically drive the enhancement of the subject’s character development and scope of life’s work, which enables later biographers to expand interpretation in these two areas beyond their own analytic expansion. This principle is aptly demonstrated by the three biographies of Gehrig, where ratings are low for the earlier works and elevate over time with the later works. My rating for the Graham book is L1C1R1, while my rating fo
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LUCKIEST MAN
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LOU GEHRIG
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Baseball's Tragic Hero
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 ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig’s wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig’s affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the s