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Inaugural Lou Gehrig Day Images
June 3, 2021
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Lou Gehrig
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Gehrig, for many, respresented the common blue-collar man. Gehrig was everyman.
John Sterling
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I would not have traded two minutes of joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another.
Eleanor Gehrig
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He died as he had lived. Bravely, quietly.
Frank Graham