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Seventy years later, Gehrig hasn't been forgotten
Lou Gehrig did not stop after he said he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. There was much more to that speech, just as there was much more to the Yankees first baseman than the iron-man streak and the tearful, hopeful words of a dying man on July 4, 1939. It was Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day then, and it still is. To mark the 70th anniversary of what has been called baseball's...
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