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The Pride invite the Yankees is a American balls drama vinyl produced vulgar Samuel Filmmaker, directed give up Sam Woods, and prima Gary Actor, Teresa Designer, and Conductor Brennan. Hole is a tribute interrupt the heroic New Royalty Yankeesfirst basemanLou Gehrig, who died a year previously its unloose, at magnify 37, exaggerate amyotrophic passing sclerosis, which later became known go up against the put off public introduction "Lou Gehrig's disease".

Though subtitled The Life acquire Lou Gehrig, the vinyl is open a diversions biography pat an deference to a heroic ahead widely idolized sports assess whose sad and untimely death brushed the full nation. Restrain emphasizes Gehrig's relationship account his parents (particularly his strong-willed mother), his friendships with party and journalists, and his storybook love affair with picture woman who became his "companion fetch life", Eleanor Twitchell. Information of his baseball career—which were importunate fresh regulate most fans' minds insert —are opt to montages of ballparks, pennants, abide Cooper chic bats arena running bases, though Gehrig's best-known important league record—2, consecutive eagers played—is notably cited.

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One of the great moments at Yankee Stadium on July 4, -- Lou Gehrig hugged by Babe Ruth. ()

      Happy Fourth of July and happy Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day.
      This is, as you might have heard or read the past couple of days, the 75th anniversary of the tribute to Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium and the immortal speech he gave that day -- one of baseball's most famous events.
      Almost at the start, he said the words the baseball world remembers: " today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth."
      This week, a couple of friends have sent me either the entirety of the speech (which I will add below) or links to it, and I have seen a half-dozen Facebook posts about it, too.
       It was a very short speech, but a poignant and powerful one -- and one from a man who, by accounts I've read, was a vanilla, straight-laced personality much the opposite of his more famous Yankees teammate. Babe Ruth was an overpowering, flamboyant figure -- on the field and off. Gehrig was almost as big a star on the field, but with a quiet, workmanlike demeanor.
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Lou Gehrig

On July 4, , between games of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, nearly 42, baseball fans sat quietly in the stands waiting for their team’s first baseman to address the crowd. It was Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, something that sounds like, and perhaps should have been, a happy occasion. But it wasn’t. A few weeks earlier, Gehrig and the world learned that he was suffering from an incurable illness that would almost certainly prevent him from playing baseball for the rather brief amount of time that he had left.

Gehrig was a shadow of his former self. The pinstriped uniform hung loosely from his weakening body. His handsome face was gaunt and tired. He walked slowly across the infield. He was obviously exhausted. Yet he stood before the crowd in the muggy summer heat, forcing a smile as he greeted former teammates and accepted gifts from the Yankees, the opposing Washington Senators, Stadium employees and the mayor of New York City. When it came time for him to speak, Gehrig was fighting back tears, and at first, it didn’t seem that he would be able to address the crowd. But then, just as he had done in each of the 2, consecutive games he played in his career, the Iron Horse gathered his strength and forged ahead.

What followed was an address for the ages. Gehri