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| 1. | Amazon.com |
| Lou Gehrig started his professional baseball career at a time when players
began to be seen as national celebrities. Though this suited charismatic
men such as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, Gehrig avoided the spotlight... read full editorial |
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| 2. | From Publishers Weekly |
| Although his record of playing in 2,130 consecutive Major League baseball
games (from 1925 to 1939) was eventually broken in 1995, Gehrig is still
remembered as one of the sport's greatest figures. But Eig, a Wall
Street... read full editorial |
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| 3. | From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com |
| On June 2, 1941, just days short of his 38th birthday, Henry Louis Gehrig
died at his house in the pleasant New York City neighborhood of
Riverdale. The disease that killed him, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was
almost... read full editorial |
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| 4. | From Bookmarks Magazine |
| Rarely do biographies capture the pure essence of an individual without
burdening the reader with useless trivia and fact. Eig, a senior reporter
at The Wall Street Journal, manages to avoid these pitfalls by
churning out... read full editorial |
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| 5. | From Booklist |
| Lou Gehrig famously announced to the world at his 1938 Yankee Stadium
tribute that he was "the luckiest man in the world." Not so. He was dying
in his late thirties from ALS, a disease that remains incurable to this
day... read full editorial |
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| 6. | Review |
| "As my consecutive games streak grew, my curiosity about Lou Gehrig also
grew and I wanted to learn more about him and what kind of person he was.
Jonathan Eig's book, Luckiest Man, really helped me put all of the
pieces... read full editorial |
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| 7. | Review |
| "The ancient maxim 'Never get to know your heroes' does not apply to Lou
Gehrig, the tragic Yankee whose life is so deftly and thoroughly examined
by Jonathan Eig in this superb biography."-- Fay Vincent, former
commissioner, Major League Baseball |
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| 8. | Dan McGrath, Chicago Tribune |
| "Admirably thorough, richly detailed and nicely written....LUCKIEST MAN is
a compelling and haunting read." |
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| 9. | Allen Barra, Los Angeles Times |
| "A wealth of new information on Gehrig's life and times, retrieving Gehrig
from the mists of legend." |
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| 10. | Book Description |
| Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse, baseball's strongest and most determined
superstar -- struck down in his prime by a disease that now bears his name.
But who was Lou Gehrig, really? What fueled his ferocious... read full editorial |
