Yankees commemorate Gehrig's speech
Published 7/4/2009 by Bryan Hoch at Major League Baseball News
Seventy years after a dying Lou Gehrig proclaimed himself the "luckiest man on the face of the earth," current Yankees reread his famous words before Saturday's game, part of MLB's initiative to promote awareness for ALS.
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