Lest we forget: Lou Gehrig

June 3, 2016

Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s death.

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https://i0.wp.com/www.paulgallico.info/lougehrig_us.jpg?resize=166%2C249I’m guessing that has something to do with the addition of Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees by the legendary Paul Gallico to the Amazon baseball best-selling list (as a Kindle book).

Naturally more recent books on Gehrig have enjoyed the ability of temporal distance as well as the availability of additional research. Here are two of my favorites:

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