What we remember most about this quiet man of dignity is a speech. How ironic. It was July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium, a little more than two months after he played his ...

Lou went to Columbia University for two years ... The first was during Gehrig’s farewell speech. Gehrig died two years later, his death coming as DiMaggio was 19 games into his record-breaking ...

I will mention the Lou Gehrig Day celebration in this ... The film ends with that speech, an emotional and weak Gehrig walking back into the tunnel and away from baseball, and the umpire yelling ...

The closing of a piece on this Bell wrote for MLB.com is notable, too, on the difference Langs is still making: Gehrig has shown us all first-hand what the reality of this situation is.

Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played ... his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.

Lou went to Columbia University for two years ... The first was during Gehrig’s farewell speech. Gehrig died two years later, his death coming as DiMaggio was 19 games into his record-breaking ...