Alan D. Gaff

I started my long odyssey somewhere in France during the First World War. Just where, I alone know. The circumstances of my passing are...

1. I took four years of Latin classes. 2. My favorite snack is Irish butter on butter crackers. 3. I am now streaming New Tricks on BBC....

During World War Two, my Dad blew up aircraft engines in South Bend, Indiana. No, he was not a German saboteur. He supervised a team of...

1. I watched the New York Yankees defeat the Tampa Bay Rays 4 to 3. Ironically, Lou’s uniform number was 4. 2. Maureen and I donated $100...

Back in the 1970s telephone companies charged for long distance calls. Maureen and I lived in Fort Wayne with our two little boys, Don...

This post is slightly edited from the Hartford Courant from May 18, 1924. The Aetna Life nine of the Life Insurance Baseball League...

I recently ordered a book from Thriftbooks.com in Dallas. The package was shipped at 3:20 pm on March 17 and for some super-secret reason...

Maureen and I had a head start on survival because of her college senior history paper on the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. In fact,...

Editor's Note: Modified slightly from its appearance in the New York Daily News on October 4, 1925. In a novel contest combining four...

On January 5 we received a Christmas card that had been postmarked December 2. It was correctly addressed and sent from an address...

Kids in Grand Rapids, Michigan thought they would be able to see two of their heroes combined into one. When the Yankees appeared in an...

Lou did have some experience on Vaudeville and radio, along with being interviewed on camera, but had no professional skill as an actor. ...

My prior posts have been of a light-hearted nature, but this one will have a more serious tone. Back in 2016, I wrote the following...

Taking a short break from Lou’s fishing trips, I will now tell of his brush with fame as the hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ tales of...

Following the Yankees World Series victory in 1936, Lou Gehrig celebrated by sticking to his 3 Rs for the off-season—reading, rest and...

When the Gehrigs returned to New York from their barnstorming tour of Asia on February 13, 1935, Lou gave the necessary press interviews,...

On December 7, 1933 Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Fred Fletcher bundled up for a cod-fishing trip off Fire Island. Actually, photos show that...

Lou Gehrig had three loves—his mother Christina (supplanted by wife Eleanor in 1933), baseball and fishing. I will start posting a series...

Towards the end of June, 1940 Fred Fletcher, sportswriter for the New York Daily News, stopped by to see the new home of Lou Gehrig. When...

What did Lou Gehrig do after ending his baseball career and giving the most famous speech in sports history? He went fishing on the...