Lou gehrig biography books
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Luckiest Man
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated—and, perhaps, even more heroic—than anyone really knew.
Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig’s wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known,
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LUCKIEST MAN
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LOU GEHRIG
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Baseball's Tragic Hero
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended bygd a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes klar, Gehrig’s life was more complicated — and, perhaps, even more heroic — than anyone really knew.
Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an något privat eller personligt portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an romantisk händelse with Gehrig’s wife), and his stjärnliknande career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a centu
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Three biographies about Lou Gehrig span the full scope of book-length treatments within the baseball biography space and illustrate how this literary sub-genre has progressed in complexity from its inception in to the modern era in
- – Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero, by Frank Graham
- – Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time, by Ray Robinson
- – Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, by Jonathon Eig
This comparative analysis uses my three-factor L-C-R rating system that evaluates Life’s Work (L), Character Interpretation (C), and Research Evidence (R) on a scale of 1 to 5 (low to high quality), to form a summary evaluation of a biography to be presented as, for example, L3C2R5. The methodology of the L-C-R rating system is described in more detail at the end of this chapter.
Improvements in the quality of research evidence typically drive the enhancement of the subject’s character development and scope of life’s work, which enables later biographers to expand interpretatio