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He was retiring and he had Lou Gehrig's disease. Basically people wanted to here Lou Gehrig's last words in person.
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Is Lou gehrigs disease contagious?
i dont know so dont ask me
Did Lou Gehrig have any injuries?
ya that is why his career ended he had a disease with a really really long name so after he died from it they called it Lou gehrigs disease look it up if you really care what it is called
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Who was Lou Gehrig and what did he do?
Lou gehrig was a member of the New York Yankees and he was a famous baseball player but he got really ill of a disease called Amythropic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS) so he died
Why did Lou Gehrig give the farewell to baseball speech?
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the 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 to associate with them for even one day?.............................................So I close in saying that I may of had a tough break - but I've got an awful lot to live for, Thank You! Lou Gehrig's speech was incredible and heart warming in such a way. Even though he was about to die of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he thanked all he had and experienced in his 37 year life.
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Martin Luther King Jr's speech became so famouse because he got all the whites to look at African Americans the same as they look at there own people.
Why did the new york yankes retier Lou Gehrigs number?
When a professional athelete uses a uniform with a number used by someone previously, there is a belief that s/he must be proven worthy of doing so; by measuring up to the performance of the previous user of that number. The retiring of any number by any team is a way of stating that nobody else would ever be equal to the person's career.
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On the early hours of September 16, 1810.
Why did Lou Reizner die so young?
Lou died in 1977 of stomach cancer
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what made Hitler's speech so famous was not the speech itself but the way it was transmited. It was one of the first serious thing televition was used and probably the first speech bysomeone incharge of a nation.
In 1963 where did dr martin Luther king jr deliver his famous i have a dream speech?
Did martin Luther king give his i have a dream speech in 1963?well idk so some 1 tell me.
