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July 04, 2009

On This Day: Lou Gehrig Delivers “Luckiest Man” Speech

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Seventy years ago today, in a farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, a terminally ill Lou Gehrig declared himself the “luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”

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