(CBS Local)-- Lou Gehrig is one the greatest baseball players in MLB history. The Iron Horse was a six-time World Series champion, two-time AL MVP, and a Triple Crown winner.

Gehrig played 17 seasons, all with the Yankees, finishing his career with a .340 batting average, 493 home runs, 1,995 runs batted in, and 2,721 hits. He was a seven-time All-Star and won the ...

Arizona Diamondbacks slugger Corbin Carroll finds himself in some of the best company anyone in baseball could ever imagine.

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 ...

Major League Baseball will host its first annual Lou Gehrig Day this season, honoring the late New York Yankees player and his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the league announced ...

Reporting from San Diego — A former baseball player who once pitched to the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig celebrated his 100th birthday Wednesday along with some 50 friends. John Kernoski of Allied ...

Each home team will have "4-ALS" logos in ballparks to mark Gehrig’s No. 4, and all players, managers and coaches will wear a Lou Gehrig Day patch on uniforms and may use red "4-ALS" wristbands.

Gehrig (1903-41) played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees (1923-1939), and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. He died in 1941 at age 37 of ALS, which is ...

Only one other MLB player has a .900+ career winning percentage in the postseason when driving in a run (min. 20 games): Lou Gehrig (also 18-2).