Lou Gehrig

sports-collectibles

Lou Gehrig cards derive value from scarcity, condition, authentication, and documented history. Because he played in the dead-ball era through the early live-ball era, his print...

health-explanation

ALS is often called Lou Gehrig’s disease because the Hall of Fame baseball player was famously diagnosed with it in the 1930s, but the name is a commemorative nickname rather...

Celebrity Profiles

Physicist Stephen Hawking is widely known for living with ALS. Diagnosed in 1963 at age 21, he lived more than 50 years with the condition, using a wheelchair and later a speech...

baseball cards

Lou Gehrig baseball card value depends most strongly on condition, era, and whether the card is a mass-market set piece or a premium variation. His landmark 1933 Goudey and 1934...