"Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig" by Jonathan Eig; Simon & Schuster ($26) Lou Gehrig burst into baseball stardom during the Roaring '20s, endured the Great Depression and soldiered on ...

Lou Gehrig's parents, Heinrich and Christina, faced chronic health issues while Lou was a young man. Consequently, Gehrig chose to forgo his football scholarship and education at Columbia University ...

Summer’s in full swing, and that means it’s time to talk baseball on I Never Knew That! As Biography.com editor Tyler explains in our latest true story, Mitchell made the most of her brief opportunity ...

"In this episode of “Yankee Week with Steve Adubato and Neal Shapiro”, The WNET Group President & CEO joins Steve to reflect on the remarkable careers of three iconic Yankee sluggers: Babe Ruth, Lou ...