Luckiest man : the life and death of Lou Gehrig /

Luckiest man : the life and death of Lou Gehrig /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Eig, Jonathan.
Imprint:New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.
Description:viii, 420 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Gehrig, Lou, -- 1903-1941.
Gehrig, Lou, -- 1903-1941.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients.
Baseball players.
United States.
Biographies.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5639104
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ISBN:0743245911
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. The Survivor
  • Chapter 2. "Babe" Gehrig
  • Chapter 3. At Columbia
  • Chapter 4. The Behemoth of Bing
  • Chapter 5. Goodbye, Mr. Pipp
  • Chapter 6. Coming of Age
  • Chapter 7. Sinner and Saint
  • Chapter 8. Barnstorming Days
  • Chapter 9. A Charmed Life
  • Chapter 10. The Crash
  • Chapter 11. Iron Horse
  • Chapter 12. Courtship
  • Chapter 13. Out of the Shadows
  • Chapter 14. A Night at the Opera
  • Chapter 15. The Next Big Thing
  • Chapter 16. Lord of the Jungle
  • Chapter 17. Strange Times
  • Chapter 18. The Longest Summer
  • Chapter 19. Like a Match Burning Out
  • Chapter 20. Last Chance
  • Chapter 21. Pitchers Once Feared His Bat
  • Chapter 22. The Bitter with the Sweet
  • Chapter 23. Luckiest Man
  • Chapter 24. The Bureaucrat
  • Chapter 25. Our Boy Is Pretty Discouraged
  • Chapter 26. He Was Baseball
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix. Lou Gehrig's Career Statistics
  • Notes
  • Index
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