A review by firerosearien
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig

4.0

A very readable biography of Gehrig that doesn't strain credulity with a subject that is so easy to mythologize. I will be honest, despite being a huge baseball fan, I was more intrigued with the biography's latter half, which becomes a discussion of ALS and the treatments offered at the time (just like today, there is no cure, but this was especially insidious at a time when medicine was making huge leaps and bounds, even more than now).