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, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse ... The first was during Gehrig’s farewell speech. Gehrig died two years later, his death coming as DiMaggio was 19 games into his record ...

In the 1920s, Lou Gehrig, the Yankees’ "Iron Horse ... The first was during Gehrig’s farewell speech. Gehrig died two years later, his death coming as DiMaggio was 19 games into his record ...

Lou Gehrig, after 2,130 consecutive games of graceful ... Stephen Hawking endures a slower but inexorable loss of speech and movement, but the degeneration is so exquisitely specific for motor ...