July 31st, 1930 NY Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in 8 runs with a grand slam and 2 doubles in a 14-13 win over the rival Boston Red Sox.
Today Gehrig is best remembered for his emotional farewell from baseball at age 36, when he was stricken with ALS, now often called Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He gave a speech to a packed Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, which famously included the lines “…today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.” (Video of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech.) ALS claimed his life just two years later.
Over a 15-season span from 1925 through 1939, Gehrig played in 2,130 consecutive games, leading to his being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. In 1969, he was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writer’s Association and was the leading vote-getter on the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, chosen by fans in 1999.
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