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Batting a thousand at being a man: Lou Gehrig always stepped up to the plate to meet whatever life pitched his way--even his own impending death--with the integrity, humility, and equanimity of a real man.(Biography)
I would not have traded two minutes of the joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another.
--Eleanor Gehrig
No man is a hero to his wife. The aphorism is rooted in the seventeenth-century proverb, "No man is a hero to his valet," from Mademoiselle A. M. Bigot de Cornuel, an observation that, on meeting our heroes, we find they have feet of clay. Like us, they put their pants on one leg at a time.
But maybe that wasn't the case with Lou Gehrig, the man they called "Gibraltar in Cleats," mythic giant of the New York Yankees in the era of Ruth and Pipp and McCarthy and Lazzeri. If any twentieth-century athlete qualifies ...
- Joe DiMaggio `made everything look so easy'.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Parrillo, Bill March 9, 1999 700+ words
...batter report. Whenever Joe DiMaggio got a hit in the Yankee...Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, our nation turns its...He was never just Joe DiMaggio. He was Joltin' Joe...successor to Ruth and Gehrig. ``Back then, we...
- The DiMaggio Nobody Knew.(Joe DiMaggio)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Cramer, Richard Ben March 22, 1999 700+ words
...public's right to know. Joe DiMaggio was our first modern media...Francisco motorcycle cops, Joe DiMaggio would make his last trip on...that time, Ruth, Cobb and Gehrig were gone. But Ted Williams...one man stood out alone. Joe DiMaggio walked away with the honor...
- Joe DiMaggio dies of cancer at 84.
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Heller, Dick March 9, 1999 700+ words
...performers sang, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you...a popular song screeched, "Joe, Joe, DiMaggio - we want you on our side!" - a sentiment...consecutive games established in 1939 by Lou Gehrig, then DiMaggio's teammate. Gehrig...
- Yankees great Joe DiMaggio dead at 84.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Bell, Dave Goldiner And Gene Mustain Bill March 9, 1999 700+ words
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. _ Joe DiMaggio, a fisherman's son whose grace...family suggested donations to the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital here, or to...other Yankee icons, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Former Gov. Mario Cuomo, a former...
- DiMaggio's America: The way we were.(Joe DiMaggio)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Lord, Lewis March 22, 1999 700+ words
...with a quiet funeral in the church where Joe DiMaggio received first Holy Communion. Like...wrote the lyric, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you...leave-it offer of $25,000. Even Lou Gehrig, baseball's richest player, didn...
- Roses from America for everybody's Joe DiMaggio.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Miller, Jeff March 9, 1999 700+ words
...many regular people go to die. Joe DiMaggio is no longer the ``Greatest Living...legends _ Babe Ruth. ``When Joe DiMaggio walks into the clubhouse...drinking story at age 63. _Lou Gehrig was once baseball's iron man...
- We still can only imagine what it was like to be Joe DiMaggio.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Peterson, Gary March 9, 1999 700+ words
...we were, the two of us. Me and Joe DiMaggio in the press box at the Oakland...rightful heir to the Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig legacy. Of course, it didn...noticed it right away. ``When Joe DiMaggio walks into the clubhouse, the...
- Owensboro, Ky., fans devoted to Joe DiMaggio; Yankees' slugger played in...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Vied, Steve March 9, 1999 700+ words
...the lone exception of the great Lou Gehrig, Hicks held no Yankee in greater esteem than Joe DiMaggio. DiMaggio, who took off the Yankee...was my boyhood hero along with Lou Gehrig. Next to Gehrig, he was my favorite Yankee,'' Hicks...
Source: HighBeam Research, Batting a thousand at being a man: Lou Gehrig always stepped up to...