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The luckiest man on the face of this earth

baseballmusings.com found this 7/4/2009 on yankees.lhblogs.com

On July 4, 1939, between games of a doubleheader, the Yankees honored Lou Gehrig. That was 70 years ago today. The great slugger, who had quit the game the previous April because of a mysterious illness we now know as ALS, had his number 4 retired and was presented with a number of gifts he ...