Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig Audiobook (Free)

The definitive account of the life span and tragic death of baseball star Lou Gehrig.

Lou Gehrig was a football legend-the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was simply the greatest first baseman in history, a guy whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that right now bears his name. But as this definitive fresh biography makes very clear, Gehrig’s lifestyle was more complicated-and, perhaps, even more heroic-than anyone really knew.

Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred about Luckiest Man: THE LIFE SPAN and Death of Lou Gehrig pages of previously unpublished characters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Guy gives us an intimate portrait of the person who became an American hero: his lifestyle as a shy and awkward youngsters growing up in NEW YORK, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over gossips that Ruth acquired acquired an affair with Gehrig’s wife), and his stellar job with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. That which was not previously known, however, is certainly that symptoms of Gehrig’s affliction started showing up in 1938, earlier than is commonly recognized. Later, conscious that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a determination that was really inspiring; he resided the last 2 yrs of his short life with the same sophistication and dignity with which he provided his now-famous “luckiest man” speech.

Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig’s Luckiest Man shows us one of the biggest baseball players of all time as we’ve under no circumstances seen him just before.