Lou Gehrig had just turned 36 when he gave his iconic speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939. The man who never sat out, never missed a game, never took a day off, had to abruptly end his baseball career two months before because ALS was tearing down his body.
He didn’t know it then, though he must have sensed it would happen soon, but Gehrig would not…
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