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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 ...
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 ...
Lou Gehrig in 140 Characters? Impossible
mlb.fanhouse.com 7/4/2009 — by David Whitley Lou Gehrig did not Twitter. Never mind that such social networking wasn't around 70 years ago. Typing minutiae and thinking it's important simply wasn't Gehrig's style. He was unassuming, lived with his parents until he was 30 and ...
Check Out Lou Gehrig’s Letters
nybaseballdigest.com 7/3/2009 — Thought all baseball fans would be interested in this.
ESPN has a great piece about Lou Gehrig’s final letters. Hear clips of his final speech and read his letters to his doctor throughout the ordeal. Gehrig was only 37 years old when he passed away from ALS.
MLB will honor ...
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 ...
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, ...
A tribute to Lou "The Iron Horse" Gehrig
mvn.com 7/3/2009 —
" 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 Stadium on July 4, 1939 remains one of
the most ...
A's beat: Giambi can appreciate Gehrig —
SFGate: Top Sports Stories
CLEVELAND - For seven years, Jason Giambi played Lou Gehrig's position for Gehrig's old team, so he had more insight than other players on the field during a brief seventh-inning ceremony to acknowledge the 70th anniversary of Gehrig's famous farewell ...
HOJO HAS TOUGH JOB OF FINDING MAKESHIFT MOJO —
NY Post: Sports
> Mets outfielder Fernando Martinez is just a kid, and he's learning and developing on the job. But there's a fear that he might get into bad habits in an effort to remedy his struggles. "Absolutely. And it's not so much the mechanics. It's ...
EXPECT FANTASY FIREWORKS FROM THESE GUYS —
NY Post: Sports
> HAPPY Fourth of July, fantasy baseball fans! Today marks the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" speech. In 1960, Mickey Mantle hit his 300th home run on America's birthday; the next year on July 4, fellow New York center ...
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