{"product_id":"luckiest-man-jonathan-eig-9780743268936","title":"Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLou 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy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, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig's affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous \"luckiest man\" speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig's \u003ci\u003eLuckiest Man\u003c\/i\u003e shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we've never seen him before.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50039850238145,"sku":"9780743268936","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9780743268936.jpg?v=1773087771","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/luckiest-man-jonathan-eig-9780743268936","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}