What we remember most about this quiet man of dignity is a speech. How ironic. It was July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium, a little more than two months after he played his ...
Lou went to Columbia University for two years ... The first was during Gehrig’s farewell speech. Gehrig died two years later, his death coming as DiMaggio was 19 games into his record-breaking ...
Lou went to Columbia University for two years ... The first was during Gehrig’s farewell speech. Gehrig died two years later, his death coming as DiMaggio was 19 games into his record-breaking ...
The image is replayed around the world every day. Gary Cooper, portraying Lou Gehrig, standing in front of those microphones, uttering those words. "Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the ...