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Back in 1938, it would have been preposterous to propose that Gehrig was having his best season, because the prevailing ...

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The woman was Mrs. Eleanor Gehrig, whose husband, Lou – the most durable baseball player of all time – has been forced to retire from the game by a mild form of infantile paralysis.

Lou and Eleanor Gehrig were married for nine years before he died. Yes, Lou Gehrig Had Lou Gehrig's Disease The letter also describes Gehrig’s private struggle with the symptoms of ALS ...

Lou Gehrig had two women in his life, his mother Christina and his wife Eleanor. Had the two been able to get along, the personal life of the legendary New York Yankees ballplayer and Hall of ...

“When I returned to the bench,” Gehrig said afterward, “the boys said, `Great play, Lou.’ I said to myself, ‘Heavens, has it reached that stage?’ ” He was shaken. In her memoir, “My Luke and I,” his ...

19, 1936. Lou Gehrig, left, inks a contract worth $36,750 in March 1937 as Jake Ruppert, Joe McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio look on. Eleanor Gehrig joins her husband on the Yankee Stadium field for a ...

Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images Lou Gehrig, Tris Speaker ... NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Eleanor Gehrig accompanies her husband at their piano in Dec. 1936.