back in the 20s when he played with Babe Ruth and the Yankees so they gave him #4, Babe batted third, so he wore #3.

While Gehrig’s unbelieveable acheivement of playing in 2,130 consecutive games is worthy of all the attention that it gets, he was also a lifetime .340 hitter and managed to average 147 RBIs a season despite playing behind the Bambino who wasnt bad at cleaning the bases himself.

Gehrig’s streak ended when he came down with ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), now called Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

His one-minute farewell speech at Yankee Stadium is still one of the most emotional and classic moments in all of sport.

Today 13 major league baseball stadiums featured Gehrig’s speech, read by a variety of celebrities like Brooke Shields, S. Epatha Merkerson, Matt Dillon, Blair Underwood, John Goodman, Chi McBride, Chris

Rock, Billy Baldwin Scott Wolf, Jason Priestley, Jesse L. Martin, David Morse, and James Gandolfini (pictured).

“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.

I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn�t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?

Sure I�m lucky. Who wouldn�t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball�s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy?

Sure I�m lucky.

When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift – that�s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies – that�s something.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter – that�s something.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it�s a blessing.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that�s the finest I know.

So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.”

the ugliest playoff game ive ever seen in my life, my little sister was having a baby.

a combination of love, perserverance, luck, courage, and science, last night shelby g. was born to a world bursting with millions of possibilities.

7 pounds 6 ounces, half black, half white, born to david and angela, midwesterners living across the street from my mom, devoted to chicago sports, animals, chinese food and suburbia.

im sure i will have pics of shelby soon, but in the meanwhile why dont you check out a guy proposing to a woman in a karoke bar.

speaking of the lakers game– how is it that i can get a less than good review from my employer, and yet the nba referees get to fly first class, stay in plush hotels and get to make ten times more than i get and yet they suck.

did the regular season mean nothing to these people?

is the nba giving them bonuses for each ridiculous call?

after this game, any sacto fan who wants to cry could.

sad part was, even while being handed the game by the refs, the lakers still barely won.

that scares me.

but if the lakers stop feeding the big fella, they’re insane. shaq should touch the ball every other time down the court.

if not more.