Luckiest Man : The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig Paperback - 2006
by Eig, Jonathan
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Drawing on hundreds of new interviews and previously unpublished letters, this authoritative, comprehensive biography of New York Yankee Lou Gehrig--the "Iron Horse"--reveals one of the greatest baseball players of all time as readers have never seen him before. 40 photos.
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- Title Luckiest Man : The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
- Author Eig, Jonathan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 2006-04-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 7604631-6
- ISBN 9780743268936 / 0743268938
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.14 x 1.14 in (23.37 x 15.60 x 2.90 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball players - United States, Gehrig, Lou
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up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 same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous "luckiest man" speech.
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig's Luckiest Man shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we've never seen him before.
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- New York Times, 05/07/2006, Page 32
