"This is going to sound corny as hell, but he was one of the greatest men I ever met in my youth. I say that from the standpoint of his being a gentleman, a sportsman and a husband. They simply don’t come any better. Oh, now, I'm not the ‘professional widow' who thinks simply because he was my husband, he was the greatest. Now put this in your notes. He left his shirts on the floor for me to pick up. I had to drag him to the haberdashers because he didn't give a damn about clothes, and he smoked as bad as I do. We were both chain smokers. We’d be hard put to stop one another today. He’d be sneaking them, and I’d be sneaking them. This isn't good for the younger generation, but it’s the truth. Lou was human, and so was Babe Ruth."
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Eleanor Gehrig, as quoted in "Lou Was Human; So Was Ruth" by Milton Richman (UPI), in The San Bernardino Desert Sun (August 7, 1973).
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Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19 1903 – June 2 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Major League Baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. He set several Major League and American League records and was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association. He played for the New York Yankees until his career was cut short by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now commonly referred to in the United States as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
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