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Bookshelf Review: Last Ride of the Iron Horse

April 20, 2020

Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season, by Dan Joseph (Sunbury Press, 2019) Perhaps it’s the morbid curiosity in me, looking for details about the tragic death of Lou Gehrig, which made Dan Joseph’s examination of the 1938 campaign hard to put down. For a […]

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The Bookshelf Conversation: Jonathan Eig

April 21, 2014

Lou Gehrig. Jackie Robinson. Two of the game’s most iconic players, celebrated for their courage under extreme conditions. Both the subjects of outstanding biographies by Jonathan Eig, and both of which appear in 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die Eig has worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Chicago magazine, […]

Tagged as: ALS, Jackie Robinson, Jonathan Eig, Lou Gehrig

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