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Lou Gehrig will be the subject of a new drama series based on the autobiography Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by author Jonathan Eig He will co-write the script with Dan Kay, and the series is set up at Apple They will partner with Lorne Michaels' production house Broadway Video for the series,[...]

Today, on an important day in baseball history, we will take a look at the life of one of baseball's all-time greats, Lou Gehrig. Gehrig was part of the fabled Murderer's Row in the late 1920s, winning six World Championships He played First Base for the Yankees all 13 of his Major League seasons, from 1926-1939[...]

The list of players they have retired is maybe the most special group in sports: #1 Billy Martin #2 Derek Jeter #3 Babe Ruth #4 Lou Gehrig #5 Joe Dimaggio #6 Joe Torre #7 Mickey Mantle #8 Yogi Berra, Bill Dickey #9 Roger Maris That is an impressive list, and that is just numbers 1-9 Weirdly, only 18 MLB players in history have ever worn[...]