One of the few surviving tickets from Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech July 4, 1939, sold for $164,700 at Heritage Auctions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Jimmy Sebring hit the first World Series homer back in 1903 and in the third game of the 118th Fall Classic, Alec Bohm of the Phillies hit the 1,000th. By Tyler Kepner Gwen Petersen, who has Lou ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris Mavraedis was born in 1952, across the street from Seals Stadium. Now he lives in a condo building across the street from Oracle Park. The sounds of the ballpark and a cheering crowd are the ...