Walter Sears was a World War I veteran who, his daughters say, had been gassed and taken prisoner by the Germans. He later rented the old Gehrig house from the List family. Straehle and her older sister, now Mary Ann Prunty, recalled details of living there — how they did their homework on a staircase landing, how the basement flooded after it rained and that the tree in the front yard where Mary Ann liked to go and daydream.

The sisters also recalled the day in 1941 when the Samuel Goldwyn production company came to New Rochelle to take photos of the house for its coming Gehrig movie, “The Pride of the Yankees,” featuring Gary Cooper. The girls stayed home from school as their parents gave the Hollywood visitors a tour.

A year later, their mother wrote to Goldwyn complaining that while she and her husband had provided full access to their home, they never received complimentary tickets to the film, as their father had requested. The letter is in the Samuel Goldwyn Collection at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills.

“That was Daddy,” Ms. Prunty said with a laugh.

The City of New Rochelle has now put up a sign commemorating the street on which the house stands as Lou Gehrig Way. Scinta is eager to do more. He wants to save the house from losing its connection to Gehrig.

The house, which needs work, was bought in another foreclosure last year for $303,000 by a real estate broker, Karan Garewal, and a partner. In a telephone interview, Garewal described the purchase as an investment and said it was now listed for sale again at $449,000.