How ironic. It was July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium, a little more than two months after he played his final game, less than a month after he had learned he had ...

Days after Jackie Mitchell (center) struck out Yankee superstars (from left) Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, the duo watched the female phenom demonstrate her fastball during spring training in ...

Just days later, Galentine died after his years-long battle with ALS. "It became his purpose," Staci said of her husband's dedication to Lou Gehrig Day. "He ate, drank, lived, breathed it.

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse," played a quiet second fiddle to Babe Ruth. Gehrig took center stage after Ruth’s retirement, but then Joe DiMaggio arrived. While someone ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is more commonly known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Grey’s Anatomy alum Eric Dane announced on Thursday, April 9, that he had been diagnosed with the nervous ...