Questions and Answers about
Lou Gehrig
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in SportsWhich famous speech is often called Baseball’s Gettysburg Address?
Answer: Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech was delivered on July 4, 1939, at Yankee Stadium in New York City in front of more than 60,000 people. Gehrig had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), later known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He retired from baseball that day and died two years later. In the speech, Gehrig said he…
