A 37-year veteran of the Caribou Police Department died Thursday morning after a yearlong battle with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s ...

From Lou Gehrig in 1939 to Eric Dane in 2025, celebrities have publicly dealt with what is now known as ALS for decades. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a ...

Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees does not play against the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium, ending his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played. 1953 — Dark Star, a 25-1 longshot, wins the Kentucky ...

1917 — Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds and Hippo Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs pitched a double no-hitter for nine innings, but the Reds won 1-0 on two hits in the 10th. Jim Thorpe drove in the winning ...

Another game, another Aaron Boone blowup. The Yankees manager added to his infamous resume on Thursday, earning his first ejection of the season after a controversial balk call that had him seeing red ...

There are few things harder as a coach than following in the footsteps of a legend, and that is exactly what Vermilion coach Gehrig Gabrie has had to do. In June 2025, legendary Sailors coach Jeff ...

Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old girl, struck out baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back-to-back in a 1931 game between the Chattanooga Lookouts and the New York Yankees. Rating: True (About ...

Box scores in newspapers that covered the game recorded Mitchell's strikeouts. Some have argued the strikeouts were staged, but there's no record of either Ruth or Gehrig ever suggesting they ...

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