Earlier this week, I was sifting through Yankees news when Jonathan Eig’s recent op-ed caught my eye. Eig’s piece contains excerpts from the letters Lou Gehrig wrote to his doctors at the Mayo Clinic, in the two years preceding his death. The correspondence moved me to tears, both for the obvious reason (they comprise the narrative of a man — an American hero — coming to terms with his bleak prognosis), and also because the letters evidence in intimate terms how Gehrig faced his illness in the same way he played baseball: with courage, immense dignity and resolve.
The story behind the doctors that diagnosed Lou Gehrig
