The Story of a Great Man
Carol Birch
In a world where winning is everything, Lou Gehrig offered us all a more complex understanding of just what it is to lose and what it is to win. His story -- with humor and heart, grit and glory -- resonates for diehard baseball fans and the uninitiated alike.
The son of impoverished immigrants, he went on to attend an Ivy League University. One of the most powerful and distinguished baseball players of the 20th century, he remained modest and unassuming throughout his career. Painfully shy, he avoided speaking in public, yet he's remembered for a speech which reverberates in the American psyche to this day.