Lou Gehrig - Letters of Lou
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Why there will never be another Lou Gehrig - MLB - SI.com
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Lou Gehrig Day
baseballmusings.com 7/4/2009 — Teams are celebrating the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s farewell by reading his speech at their ballparks. Peter Abraham notes the Yankees celebration . My dad was at the game and heard the speech. I asked him about it today, and he says he doesn’t remember much. He went with ...

Lou Gehrig’s Day
writingthepine.com 7/4/2009 — yankeestribute.com Today marks the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech and to raise awareness of ALS, his speech will be read at every major league game today. The “Iron Horse” was a hell of a baseball player that often let his bat do the ...

Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day
threio.com 7/4/2009 — On this day in baseball history, July 4, 1939, the New York Yankees retire the number “4” in honor of Lou Gehrig. This will be the first time the Yankees organization would retire a players’ number. After encouragement from Yankees manager Joe McCarthy he delivers the most famous keynote ...

Baseball To Honor New York Yankees Lou Gehrig On Saturday July 4
metspolice.com 6/27/2009 — Very cool... SPORTS / BASEBALL 70 Years Later, Gehrig’s Speech Still Resonates With Inspiration By RAY ROBINSON Published: June 28, 2009 Major League Baseball will honor the anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s farewell at 15 games on Saturday, when his speech will be read during the ...

A Tribute to Lou “The Iron Horse” Gehrig
dugoutcentral.com 7/4/2009 — “I might’ve been given a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for. Thank you.” Those were the final words Lou Gehrig ever spoke to the hearts of America. His succinct and supple speech on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee ...

Celebrating Lou Gehrig’s famous speech 70 years later
nyyankeesrumors.com 7/4/2009 — Lou Gehrig delivered baseball’s Gettysburg address on July 4th, 1939. It was the most inspirational event to ever occur on a baseball diamond. He delivered words of courage in the face of death in front of 61,808 fans. He resembled everything that was right in the game…courage, ...

In Memory of Lou, and Uncle Billy
quinnmedia.blogspot.com 7/4/2009 — It was 70 years ago today that Lou Gehrig made his farewell speech to baseball, in-between games of a doubleheader on July 4. 1939, at Yankee Stadium. He was dying from an incurable disease called ALS, which has more commonly become known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Today, MLB will remember Lou at ...

Shane Victorino Presented With 2008 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
the700level.com 7/5/2009 — If you saw the Phillies' win over the Mets yesterday, you no doubt missed that Major League Baseball was celebrating the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's historic farewell speech. Every player wore a commemorative patch, which despite the respect it showed the occasion, cluttered things up a ...

Yankees power Burnett past Blue Jays — Major League Baseball News 7/3/2009
Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez each went deep, and Yankees starter A.J. Burnett tossed seven solid innings to upend the Blue Jays, 4-2, on Friday.

BURNETT, YANKEES TOP BLUE JAYS, 4-2 — NY Post: Sports 7/3/2009
> A.J. Burnett quickly got the Yankees back to their winning ways. Burnett scattered six hits over seven innings, Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez homered, and the Yankees opened the long holiday weekend with a 4-2 victory over the Toronto ...

Yankees bounce back, Burnett beats Jays (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 7/3/2009
A.J. Burnett quickly got the New York Yankees back to their winning ways. Burnett scattered six hits over seven innings, Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez homered, and the Yankees opened the long holiday weekend with a 4-2 victory over the ...

Seventy years later, Gehrig hasn't been forgotten — Newsday.com - Yankees 7/4/2009
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 ...

Why there will simply never be another Lou Gehrig — SI.com - MLB 7/3/2009
There are many reasons why will there never be another Lou Gehrig, as Dick Friedman explains.