When Lou Gehrig dropped out of Columbia University to sign with the New York Yankees a century ago this summer, his mother wasn’t happy about it. A hard-working immigrant from Germany ...

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Back in 1938, it would have been preposterous to propose that Gehrig was having his best season, because the prevailing ...

By the following autumn Lou Gehrig, in a pair of old pants and a white shirt, was a familiar figure on the campus. He had not been ready at first to take Columbia entrance exams, but six rather ...

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Gehrig was the son of poor German immigrants whose ambition was to see their son attend college. Lou went to Columbia University for two years on a football scholarship, but his education was cut ...

Back at Columbia, he starred as pitcher and slugger ... “He popped up infield fly balls and he was not too hot in the field.” Before Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse; before he declared he ...

DN-Gehrig “Yankees still good sans Gehrig; Columbia Lou on bench,” read the May 3 edition of the Deseret News sports section. Gehrig voluntarily took himself out of the lineup, but it wasn’t ...

To further baseball legend Lou Gehrig’s legacy and his storied career that began at the collegiate level at Columbia University, the Lou Gehrig Community Impact Team was created to annually ...