Gehrig & The Babe: The Companionship and The Feud is the emotionally gripping, electrifying accounts of the relationship of legendary NY Yankee icons Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth as well as the tragic behind-the-scenes battle that bitterly tore them aside until Gehrig was dying of a horrific disease.

Written by historian and best-selling author Tony Castro, this critically acclaimed book tells their remarkable story which has often been lost between the web pages of individual biographies of the approximately Gehrig as well as the Babe: The Camaraderie and the Feud American icons but here’s explored in such scope and fine detail that the Wall Street Journal called Gehrig & The Babe ‘ . the ‘Butch Cassidy as well as the Sundance Kid’ of baseball.’ ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap known as Gehrig & The Babe ‘a interesting story told in full really for the first time, seventy-plus years after their death.’

Tony Castro, whose Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Child continues to be hailed by the brand new York Times while the definitive biography of the Hall of Fame legend, worked almost a decade on Gehrig & The Babe, interviewing hundreds of their surviving previous teammates, associates, and friends even though also extensively researching their lives in New York, Baltimore, Boston, and LA as well while studying years of newspaper accounts of the era where they played.