I wanted to thank you for reestablishing Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day on June 2, 2021. I was diagnosed with ALS May of 2020. This diagnosis rocked my world! We have all heard about other diseases ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, throughout Major League Baseball, that hope was embraced on the inaugural Lou Gehrig Day. Major League Baseball remembered the Yankees’ “Iron Horse” who died at age 37 of ...

Major League Baseball announced Thursday that June 2 will be officially known as “Lou Gehrig Day.” Unofficially, it also will be “Jim Hilliard Day.” Jim is one of the thousands of ...

Talk about July 4th, 1939. - This is the day that the Yankees decided to honor Lou with Lou Gehrig Day at Yankee Stadium in between games of a double header against Washington. And what's so ...

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse," played ... Said DiMaggio, "There never was a day in sports like July fourth that year at the Yankee Stadium, and I doubt there ever will ...

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability, was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 17-year ...