On this day, July 4th, in 1939, New York Yankee Lou Gehrig delivered his famous farwell speech at Yankee Stadium.

Lou Gehrig's full Luckiest Man speech Lou Gehrig didn't have to speak long to share a message that would last for generations to come. Here's the speech he gave on July 4, 1939: ...

Baseball great Lou Gehrig's famous farewell speech in 1939 marked the end of his baseball career - a career cut short by the neurological disease known as ALS. The disease later took on his name ...