Labels:bulletin board | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: Hall of Fame baseball player Lou Gehrig (1903 1941) played for the New York Yankees his entire professi ional career. His lifetime batting average was .340 (the fifteenth highest ever) and he averaged 147 RBIs season His 23 career grand slams record still holds. Ir 1938 Gehrig's strength began to fail, and in May 1939 he ended his 2,130 consecutive games played streak Gehrig was diagnosed with very rare degenerative disease ALS (now often called Lou Gehrig's disease) His wife of eight years, Eleanor Gehrig cared for him as his health continued to decline He died on June 21 1941. Gehrig made this speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4th, 1939 to bid farewell to the stadium and his fans; declaring Today consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth might have been given bad break, bu ...
