Lou Gehrig Farewell Speech

• The organization notes that the quote has been picked up on Twitter a bit, and its all happening as July 4 marks the 73rd anniversary of Lou Gehrigs famous farewell speech from major league baseball at Yankee Stadium.
(USA Today)
• Most people still don't know what ALS is. Our understanding has not changed much since Lou Gehrig delivered his farewell speech and left baseball 73 years ago today, due to his condition.
(NJ.com)
• The comedy starring Mark Wahlberg has riled a group over a joke about Lou Gehrig's disease Today (July 4) marks the 73rd anniversary of Gehrig's farewell speech at Yankee Stadium.
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• Most famously it provided one of sports most emotional moments: Lou Gehrigs luckiest man on the face of the Earth farewell speech in 1939. But the above photo only begins to exemplify the Yankees ties to Independence Day.
(ESPN)
• In 1939, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees delivered his famous farewell speech in which he called himself "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth." • In 1960, America's 50-star flag, recognizing Hawaiian statehood, was officially unfurled.
(Columbus Dispatch)
• A train wreck near Corning, N.Y., claimed 39 lives. In 1939, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees delivered his famous farewell speech in which he called himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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• A train wreck near Corning, N.Y., claimed 39 lives. In 1939, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees delivered his famous farewell speech in which he called himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
(Kentucky Post)
• I try to be positive and take it like baseball where you can't get too high or too low. It's not 1939 when Lou Gehrig gave his farewell speech. This is 2012, and I hope there'll be a game changer soon.
(Salem News)
• ALS Awareness Night at Tropicana Field is Tuesday, July 3. Prior to the Rays-Yankees game, Rays Radio play-by-play announcer Andy Freed will read Lou Gehrig's famous farewell speech.
(Tampa Bay Rays)