Baseball Honors Lou Gehrig

July 4, 2009 at 8:38 pm (Baseball, Life & Death)

On this date, 70 years ago, Lou Gehrig gave his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium. My late mother, Vivian, was in attendance. She remembered, years later, that there wasn’t a dry eye in the house… including Lou’s.

LouGehrig

Today, Baseball stopped and paid tribute.

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