A review by bobbo49
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig

3.0

While the basics of Lou Gehrig's story are known to every serious baseball fan, Eig's accountof his life and death adds many details to the account (did you know that Gehrig hit a home run on the very next pitch after Ruth's "called shot" in the World Series?), especially regarding ALS and Gehrig's final 18 months of life. Unfortunately, however, the story is told without much passion or depth; because Gehrig was such a private person, other than a treasure of letters to and from his doctors in the last year, not much of his inner life is revealed. Disappointing, on the whole.