Lou Helmig is tall and lean, long brown locks hanging from beneath his ballcap. He looks the part of the prototypical ...

Lou Gehrig, a man who made us forget Wally Pipp ... Born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig II on June 19, 1903, to poor German immigrants inside the family's cramped apartment on Manhattan's Upper East ...

Lou Gehrig wasn't quite there yet ... expected to take care of his family. And he had this incredible sense of responsibility that he owed his parents. And I think that's one of the reasons ...

The community is asked to support Cindy Walsh, a Danville woman who's been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also ...

Legendary singer Roberta Flack was honored by family, friends and fans on Monday with a celebration of life service in Harlem. Flack, 88, died on Feb. 24 at her home. The Grammy-winning singer ...

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse," played a quiet second fiddle to Babe Ruth. Gehrig took center stage after Ruth’s retirement, but then Joe DiMaggio arrived. While someone ...

On Wednesday, throughout Major League Baseball, that hope was embraced on the inaugural Lou Gehrig Day. Major League Baseball remembered the Yankees’ “Iron Horse” who died at age 37 of ...

She was 88. She died at home surrounded by her family, publicist Elaine Schock said in a statement. Flack announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no ...