Gehrig delivered a farewell speech now known as the "Luckiest Man Alive" speech to Yankee Stadium fans in 1939, two weeks after he was diagnosed with ALS, in an event labeled Lou Gehrig Day.

Lou’s lifetime slash (batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage) was .344/.447/.632. He had eight seasons ...

The image of Lou Gehrig saying farewell to Yankees fans, his head bowed as he speaks into a cluster of microphones near home plate on July 4, 1939, remains indelible, even after 75 years.

As Major League Baseball celebrates its first annual “Lou Gehrig Day,” revisit the famous 1939 farewell speech by the Yankees legend that cemented a relationship between baseball and the ALS ...

He could have parlayed his fame, and his speech, into a lucrative second career as Lou Gehrig, Hero. He could have put his name on a restaurant for $30,000, or done paid speaking engagements.

French pathologist Jean-Martin Charcot first described ALS in 1869. Though the British called it motor-neuron disease, Americans began calling it Lou Gehrig's Disease after the famous speech.

As Cal Ripken Jr. circled the field at Camden Yards to accept congratulations for topping Lou Gehrig's consecutive games streak in 1995, he couldn't help thinking about the ill-fated star. "His ...

While MLB honors the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's famous July 4 speech, we must not forget the cruel way Gehrig died and that we must find a way to stop ALS.

McCarthy whispered enouragement to him and Lou hobbled to the bank of microphones. Gehrig did not have a written speech to deliver — and no actual copy of it appears to exist.

Gehrig delivered a farewell speech now known as the "Luckiest Man Alive" speech to Yankee Stadium fans in 1939, two weeks after he was diagnosed with ALS, in an event labeled Lou Gehrig Day.

Gehrig delivered a farewell speech now known as the "Luckiest Man Alive" speech to Yankee Stadium fans in 1939, two weeks after he was diagnosed with ALS, in an event labeled Lou Gehrig Day.