Baseball (19-Jun-1903 — 2-Jun-1941)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jonathan Eig. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2005. 420pp.

Paul Gallico. Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1942. 185pp.

Richard Hubler. Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse of Baseball. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1941. 206pp.

Ray Robinson. Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time. New York: W. W. Norton. 1990. 304pp.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.249)

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.573)

7. Webster's American Biographies (p.389)

8. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.267)

9. American Lives: Sports (vol.1, pp.317-19)

10. ESPN Sports Almanac 2004 (p.521)

11. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.2, p.217)

12. Sports Illustrated 2005 Almanac (p.865)

13. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.262)

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