One of the few surviving tickets from Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech July 4, 1939, sold for $164,700 at Heritage Auctions ...

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Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:44:57 GMT — On this day, July 4th, in 1939, New York Yankee Lou Gehrig delivered his famous farwell speech at Yankee Stadium. Other than his speech, Gehrig is best known for his ...

Lou Gehrig's uniform from his final Yankee Stadium appearance has sold for $2.712 million at auction, the most ever paid for a piece of Gehrig memorabilia. The uniform, which was worn by Gehrig at ...