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This Fourth of July brings with it a special anniversary for New Yorkers. On this day 85 years ago Yankees baseball great Lou Gehrig, suffering from ALS, the neurodegenerative illness now known as Lou ...

Lou Gehrig will forever be one of the greatest players in the history of baseball. But the legacy of the New York Yankees legend is so much greater than that. Gehrig's famous consecutive games streak, ...

On June 1, 1925, Yankees manager Miller Huggins sent a young Lou Gehrig into the game as a pinch hitter for Pee Wee Wanninger. The next day, Gehrig would be inserted into the regular lineup to replace ...