Lou Gehrig (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Graham
- First Published: 1942
- Time of Work: 1903–1941
- Setting: New York
- Principal Characters: Lou Gehrig, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, Joe McCarthy, Babe Ruth, Eleanor Gehrig, Bill Dickey, Miller Huggins
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Death or dying, Sick persons, Fame, Baseball, Athletes, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Sports, Biography
- Locales: New York
Form and Content
Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero, by Frank Graham, is first of all a biography, but more than that it is a chronicle of baseball during the first half of the twentieth century. During these years, baseball was not only the national pastime but also the arena in which legends were made. Graham’s book specifically focuses on the baseball episodes of Gehrig’s life, from his early high-school days in Brooklyn through his collegiate career at Columbia University and later to his sixteen years as a New York Yankee.
Each of the first few chapters of the book...
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