Arizona Diamondbacks slugger Corbin Carroll finds himself in some of the best company anyone in baseball could ever imagine.

Some Minnesota lawmakers hope to force the release of Lou Gehrig's medical records, saying they might provide insight into whether the Yankees star died of the disease that came to take his name ...

The image of Lou Gehrig saying farewell to Yankees fans, his head bowed as he speaks into a cluster of microphones near home plate on July 4, 1939, remains indelible, even after 75 years. Gehrig's ...

This Fourth of July brings with it a special anniversary for New Yorkers. On this day 85 years ago Yankees baseball great Lou Gehrig, suffering from ALS, the neurodegenerative illness now known as ...

Lou Gehrig biographer Ray Robinson, sitting in his Upper East Side home, was in the stands at Yankee Stadium 75 years ago when The Iron Horse — dying of a neuroloigcal disease that now bares his ...

The first time Lou Gehrig drew notice at Wrigley Field, he was playing for New York’s High School of Commerce and had just turned 17. Dubbed “the Babe Ruth of the high schools” — and ...

Lou Gehrig lived 23 months after stepping back from that microphone. What is known about ALS is that half of those diagnosed with it live at least three or more years after diagnosis, a quarter ...

An RBI machine, Gehrig knocked in 185 runs, an AL record, in 1931 and topped 150 in six other seasons. "He was so proud of that," Eig says. "He always said he didn't care about home runs but that ...

On July 4, 1939, baseball player Lou Gehrig stood on the field at Yankee Stadium in front of 62,000 fans. This wasn’t unusual; nicknamed the “Iron Horse,” he had been the New York Yankees ...

Yankees legend Lou Gehrig died 69 years ago from what was believed to be amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, where is when various cells in the brain and spinal column become slowly diseased and ...

MLB announces Lou Gehrig Day: June 2 will forever be known as Lou Gehrig Day. Each year, we will celebrate his legacy and honor those we've lost to ALS.