Lou Gehrig Art Print, The Luckiest Man, Yankee Stadium 1939, Vintage Wall Art

Two thousand one hundred and thirty consecutive games. Fourteen years, through broken fingers and concussions and a back that seized. The record stood for fifty-six years.

In 1939 his body began failing in ways nobody could explain. He took himself out of the lineup in May. The diagnosis came in June: a disease that would kill him within two years.

On the fourth of July, in front of a full Yankee Stadium, he stood at a microphone and told sixty-two thousand people that he considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. He was thirty-six. He died twenty-three months later.

Stories worth passing on, not just remembering.