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Emotional farewell for "luckiest man on earth"

By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, July 3, 2001

July 4, 1939 A little more than two months after Lou Gehrig played his final game, less than a month after he had learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the New York Yankees hold "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day." There is Gehrig, surrounded by his teammates from the 1927 and 1939 Yankees, taking his cut at the microphone. Shaken with emotion, he fights back tears as he keeps his eyes focused on the ground. For a moment it looks as if Gehrig won't make it to the plate. But manager Joe McCa ...

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