Seventy years later, Gehrig hasn't been forgotten
Published 7/4/2009 at Newsday.com - Yankees
Lou Gehrig did not stop after he said he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. There was much more to that speech, just as there was much more to the Yankees first baseman than the iron-man streak and the tearful, hopeful words of a dying man on July 4, 1939.
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