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 ...

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig ... occurred in the summer of 1939, after Gehrig’s diagnosis. The Yankees held a good-bye gathering for Gehrig on the Fourth of July. The teary-eyed Gehrig stood ...

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig ... occurred in the summer of 1939, after Gehrig’s diagnosis. The Yankees held a good-bye gathering for Gehrig on the Fourth of July. The teary-eyed Gehrig stood ...