One of the most moving Baseball speeches of all time.
As a first baseman for the New York Yankees baseball team, Lou Gehrig played in 2,130 consecutive games from 1925 to 1939, setting a major league record and had a career batting average of .340. He once hit four home runs in a game.
On July 4, 1939, he stood before 60,000 fans at Yankee Stadium and confirmed what everyone seemed to know, that the “Pride of the Yankees” had been dealt a terrible blow, diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (now often called Lou Gehrig’s disease), a rare disease that causes spinal paralysis.
Less than two years later, on June 2, 1941, he died in Riverdale, N.Y.
Lou Gehrig's Farewell speech
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