One of the few surviving tickets from Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech July 4, 1939, sold for $164,700 at Heritage Auctions on Saturday night. The ticket stub is graded PSA 1.5 and is one of nine ...

Teams will promote efforts to find a cure for the disease. Every Major League Baseball stadium on Wednesday will become a living testament to Lou Gehrig and use his memory to raise awareness for the ...

VALHALLA – They come to praise Lou Gehrig, not to bury him. The burial was seen to eight decades ago, on this lovely spot halfway up a soft rise in Section 93 of Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, a hamlet ...

Lou Gehrig stands tall in the annals of MLB history. The first baseman spent 17 years with the New York Yankees from 1923-1939. During that span, he made seven All-Star appearances, earned two MVP ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Major League Baseball teams will honor one of its all-time greats on Wednesday. Lou Gehrig Day will be recognized for the first time by baseball clubs across the country.

Wednesday marked the inaugural Lou Gehrig Day across Major League Baseball. The day celebrates the life of Gehrig, a Hall of Famer and one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, and beyond that ...

With 27 World Series championships, any list constrained to the five best seasons in Yankees history is incomplete by ...

Lou Gehrig's 1937 New York Yankees home jersey, from his last full season before ALS, is up for auction, potentially fetching over $3 million. Experts confirmed its authenticity, linking it to key ...

Topps Now commemorated Lou Gehrig Day 2025 with a new release of a limited edition, charitable 30-card set featuring some of the biggest stars of the game and The Hobby on a dual-image card with The ...

In baseball, Lou Gehrig’s name remains synonymous with Hall of Fame-caliber performance and astonishing durability. But it was after his career – and life – ended that Gehrig achieved another kind of ...

On July 4, 1939, baseball player Lou Gehrig stood on the field at Yankee Stadium in front of 62,000 fans. This wasn’t unusual; nicknamed the “Iron Horse,” he had been the New York Yankees’ regular ...

MIAMI, March 4 (UPI) --MLB will celebrate its first "Lou Gehrig Day" on June 2, holding what is expected to be an annual tribute to the New York Yankees' Hall of Fame first baseman, who battled ...