Biography of eleanor gehrig
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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 sidledes 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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Pieces of History
• For journalism historians, the articles feature publications such as the New York Journal and American, New York Mirror, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times, and The Sporting News. They also document the work of prominent sports journalists of the era, including Bob Considine, Dan Daniel, John Kieran, Sid Mercer, Westbrook Pegler, Jimmy Powers, Rud Rennie, Grantland Rice, and J.G. Taylor Spink.
• For fans of Lou Gehrig, even avid ones, there are numerous unique tidbits contained in the articles. For example, in a New York Daily News article dated May 3, 1939, columnist Jimmy Powers wrote, “…Lou is only 35. He is rich. He is blessed with a beautiful wife. His reflexes have slowed a trifle. He cannot get the jump on ground balls. And his eyes don’t focus curves or fast ones as well as they used to. But otherwise he is all right. As the fortunes of men go, Lou is one of the luckiest men in the world.” The last line echoed the exact sentiment of Gehr