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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig | Jonathan Eig
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The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legendthe Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrigs life was more complicatedand, perhaps, even more heroicthan anyone really knew. Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up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 Gehrigs 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 Gehrigs 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 Eigs Luckiest Man shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as weve never seen him before.
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paulareadsallthetime
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⭐️⭐️⭐️This book tells the story of Lou Gehrig. He was a baseball player who developed ALS and died. I was interested in this because I have watched Pride of the Yankees and my Mom passed away from ALS in 2018.

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Amiable
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It‘s snowing, it‘s so early that it‘s still pitch dark outside, and I‘m on the train to work. But I can still daydream about the crack of the bat and the cheers of the crowd on a glorious summer day at the ballpark, right? ☺️

kspenmoll Of course!!!!⚾️ 4y
Liz_M That's the best time to daydream of glorious summer days! 4y
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Susanita
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1. Biographies
2. I‘m at a baseball game!
3. Small sample size for both, but I have to say Capote.
4. ¡Quesadilla!
5. Consider yourself tagged if you want to be.
#TuesdayTidbits
#thisorthat

JenlovesJT47 💚💚💚 6y
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