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Eleanor Gehrig
No one chooses to become a professional widow, and Eleanor Gehrig derived little satisfaction in being called one. Yet few ballplayers’ wives maintained a level of such prominence so long after their husband’s death as they had when he was alive. Mrs. Lou Gehrig was married less than eight years; she was a widow for nearly forty-three. Upon her passing, some headlines proclaimed her “First Lady of the Yankees,” for her constant presence at the team’s Old Timers’ Days spanning four decades.1
“I would not have traded two minutes of the joy and grief with that man for two decades of anything with another,” she wrote in her memoir, My Luke and I. “Happy or sad, filled with great expectations or great frustrations, we had attained it for whatever brief instant that fate had decided.”2
The romance between Eleanor Twitchell and Lou Gehrig has been trumpeted as the great American Love Story: the mismatch of a former Chicago “society” girl and a shy immigrants’ son. How
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Eleanor Gehrig
American philanthropist (1905–1984)
Eleanor Gehrig | |
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Eleanor Gehrig, 1935. | |
| Born | Eleanor Grace Twitchell (1904-03-06)March 6, 1904 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | March 6, 1984(1984-03-06) (aged 80) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse | Lou Gehrig (m. 1933; died 1941) |
Eleanor Grace Twitchell Gehrig (née Twitchell; March 6, 1904 – March 6, 1984)[1][2] was an American philanthropist, socialite, sports executive, and memoirist, known as the wife of American baseball player Lou Gehrig. After Gehrig's death she continued to promote his legacy and contribute to Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) research.
In 1976 she released her autobiography, My Luke and I.
Biography
[edit]Early years
[edit]Eleanor Twitchell was born March 6, 1904, in Chicago, the daughter of Nellie (née Mulvaney 1884–1968) and Frank Twitchell.[3]
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Three biographies about Lou Gehrig span the full scope of book-length treatments within the baseball biography space and illustrate how this literary sub-genre has progressed in complexity from its inception in 1942 to the modern era in 2005:
- 1942 – Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero, by Frank Graham
- 1990 – Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time, by Ray Robinson
- 2005 – Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, by Jonathon Eig
This comparative analysis uses my three-factor L-C-R rating system that evaluates Life’s Work (L), Character Interpretation (C), and Research Evidence (R) on a scale of 1 to 5 (low to high quality), to form a summary evaluation of a biography to be presented as, for example, L3C2R5. The methodology of the L-C-R rating system is described in more detail at the end of this chapter.
Improvements in the quality of research evidence typically drive the enhancement of the subject’s character development and scope of life’s work, which enables later biographers t