Record details

• ISBN: 0743245911
• ISBN: 9780743245913
• Physical Description: viii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2005]
• Copyright: ©2005

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1 Survivor 3 -- Chapter 2 "Babe" Gehrig 13 -- Chapter 3 At Columbia 27 -- Chapter 4 Behemoth of Bing 41 -- Chapter 5 Goodbye, Mr. Pipp 54 -- Chapter 6 Coming of Age 69 -- Chapter 7 Sinner and Saint 82 -- Chapter 8 Barnstorming Days 107 -- Chapter 9 A Charmed Life 118 -- Chapter 10 Crash 128 -- Chapter 11 Iron Horse 141 -- Chapter 12 Courtship 161 -- Chapter 13 Out of the Shadows 177 -- Chapter 14 A Night at the Opera 192 -- Chapter 15 Next Big Thing 204 -- Chapter 16 Lord of the Jungle 218 -- Chapter 17 Strange Times 233 -- Chapter 18 Longest Summer 245 -- Chapter 19 Like a Match Burning Out 262 -- Chapter 20 Last Chance 277 -- Chapter 21 Pitchers Once Feared His Bat 287 -- Chapter 22 Bitter with the Sweet 292 -- Chapter 23 Luckiest Man 310 -- Chapter 24 Bureaucrat 320 -- Chapter 25 Our Boy Is Pretty Discouraged 329 -- Chapter 26 He Was Baseball 351 -- Appendix Lou Gehrig's Career Statistics 369.

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Genre:

Biographies.