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Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse, baseball's most powerful and most decided superstar, struck down in his primary by an illness that now bears his name. But who was simply Lou Gehrig, really? Lou Gehrig is undoubtedly the greatest first baseman in football history. A muscular but clumsy sportsman who was raised in New York City, he idolized his hardworking mom and remained specialized in her all his life. Shy and socially uncomfortable, Gehrig was a misfit on a Yankee team that included drinkers and hell-raisers, especially Babe Ruth. Gehrig and Ruth formed the greatest slugging tandem in football history. These were the heart of the first great Yankee dynasty. After Ruth's retirement life, Gehrig and a young Joe DiMaggio would commence a new age of Yankee dominance. But Luckiest Man unveils that Gehrig was afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) much sooner than anyone believes, as soon as the planting season of 1938. Regardless of the illness, he didn't miss a casino game that calendar year, keeping intact his amazing consecutive-games streak, which stood for over fifty percent a century. In Luckiest Man, Jonathan Eig brings to life a figure whose shyness and insecurity obscured his greatness during his life span. Gehrig emerges as more individual and even more heroic than ever before.
