The final chapters of a newly published biography of baseball legend Lou Gehrig describes in intimate and 
inspiring details the baseball legend's struggle with the disease that would borrow his name during the two years after he retired from the sport. These details emerge from never before published correspondence with his doctor which also shed light on experimental treatments and the medical ethics prevailing at the time. It is retching to see how doctors and spouses often hid medical realities from patients in a way that today would not be common.
