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

Lou Gehrig will forever be one of the greatest players in the history of baseball. But the legacy of the New York Yankees ...

The next two years will tell Gehrig's fate. When his legs go, they'll go in a hurry. The average ball fan doesn't realize the effect a single charley horse can have on your legs. If Lou stays out ...

A tiny “polio” germ that gets into the spinal cord, dulls the reflexes and slows down all the motor nerves of the arms and legs has definitely ended the playing career of Lou Gehrig.

“Lou Gehrig put a face to it ... Nieto says he can live without arms and legs. Without the ability to swallow food. Without the ability to breathe on his own. As long as he can communicate.

Those are muscles you use for actions such as moving your arms and legs, talking, and chewing. ALS is considered a motor neuron disease. Lou Gehrig was a baseball player in the 1930s whose career ...

Surely the ballpark would share a story about Lou Gehrig's final game appearance in ... Babe Dahlgren had to help him cross his legs. More than three months after saying he was "the luckiest ...

The image of Lou Gehrig saying farewell to Yankees fans, his head bowed as he speaks into a cluster of microphones near home plate on July 4, 1939, remains indelible, even after 75 years.

Lou Gehrig was dead, but thanks in large part to ... Papua New Guinea, on the first leg of a 24,000-mile USO tour in 1943. Cooper, then Hollywood’s biggest star, couldn’t sing or dance ...