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 ...

There were no page-topping headlines in newspapers around the world announcing that on May 2, 1939, Lou Gehrig of the New York ... s Mark Delgado receiving last season’s MLS Championship ring ...

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 ...