Lou Gehrig (Henry Louis Gehrig, 1903–1941), who played as a first baseman for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball ...

Major League Baseball, in coordination with all 30 Clubs, will observe the sixth annual Lou Gehrig Day on June 2 -- a date ...

Major League Baseball, in coordination with all 30 Clubs, will observe the sixth annual Lou Gehrig Day on June 2nd — a date ...

This Fourth of July brings with it a special anniversary for New Yorkers. On this day 85 years ago Yankees baseball great Lou Gehrig, suffering from ALS, the neurodegenerative illness now known as Lou ...

Lou Gehrig famously said upon his retirement that he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. This was despite the fact that he had been diagnosed with ALS, a disease that ended ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on May 2, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. There were no page-topping headlines in newspapers ...

On June 13, 1939 — 75 years ago — Lou Gehrig arrived at the Rochester airport. He came to Rochester where he was to undergo a physical check-up at the Mayo Clinic. Weeks earlier (May 2), Gehrig took ...