On June 2, teams across Major League Baseball will recognize the 5th Annual Lou Gehrig Day. June 2 was selected because it was the date Gehrig became the Yankees' starting first baseman. It is also ...

Baseball's 'Iron Horse' ended his games played streak on this day in 1939.

Lou Gehrig famously said upon his retirement that he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. This was despite the fact that he had been diagnosed with ALS, a disease that ended ...

He was a 7-time All-Star player, a 6-time World Series champion, an American League MVP and so many other accolades. So it’s ...