Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Lou Gehrig Says Goodbye

 “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.” 



Seventy-five years ago, before a crowd of over 61,000, 36-year-old New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig prematurely said goodbye to the game he loved after learning that he suffered from a degenerative neurological disorder called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or, as it’s now more commonly known, Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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