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You’ve heard Lou Gehrig’s iconic “Luckiest Man Alive” speech countless times. Close your eyes and you can see him in black-and-white, bowing his head in front of the steel microphones and wiping away tears as he bid farewell to baseball. You can feel the 62,000 fans in Yankee Stadium collectively chanting “We Want Lou” as the Iron Horse stood in front of the crowd one last time — not long before a little known disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) would take his life.
But what you may not know about that speech is that it was made on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. It’s time to bring that back. For every person with ALS fighting like hell for a cure just like Lou did.
It’s time to have an official, league-wide Lou Gehrig Day that honors his legacy: Not just in one stadium, but in all of baseball.
About Us
The Lou Gehrig Day Committee is made up of People with ALS, Caregivers of ALS, and Family with ALS. We are proud to represent the ALS community as a whole to raise awareness and find cures!
(pALS) Bryan Wayne Galentine, Adam Wilson, Larry Falivena, Pat Quinn, Phil Green, Sarah Olsen, Eric Stevens (cALS) Mike Piscotty, Tamara Hilliard (fALS) Chuck Haberstroh, Kate Fagan, Steve Haberstroh, Tom Haberstroh
Sam Hilliard
Stephen Piscotty
Mike Timlin
George Brett
Greg Maddux
John Smoltz
Jeff Bagwell
Bert Blyleven
Tommy John
Dale Murphy
Will Clark
Nolan Arenado
Ian Desmond
Gregg Olson
Yonder Alonso
David Dahl
Trevor Story
Daniel Murphy
Pat Tabler
Mike Sweeney
Ben Grieve
Danny Graves
Darrell Evans
Whit Merrifield
Salvador Perez
Willie Wilson
John Buck
Jeff Montgomery
Rob Dibble
Tom Hume
Jeff Brantley
Kurt Suzuki
Dom Nunez
Garrett Hampson
Peter Lambert
Josh Fuentes
Ryan McMahon
Brendan Rodgers
Dave Magadan
Sam Howard
Mike Bacsik Sr.
Steve Foster
Tony Wolters
John Briscoe
Kyle Freeland
Tim Melville
Darren Holmes
Yency Almonte
Kunio Nakatani
Kyle Cunningham
Jeff Hoffman
Mike Pontarelli
Mike Redmond
Drew Butera
Pat Valaika
Phillip Diehl
Chi Chi Gonzalez
Scott Oberg
Jeff Salazar
Brian Shaw
Tom Grieve
Al Fitzmorris
Pete LaCock
Mark Littell
Kurt Bevacqua
John D’Acquisto
Brad Keller
Hunter Dozier
Les Norman
Kirk Nieuwenhuis
AJ Hinch
Ron Oester
Joe Price
Rawly Eastwick
Chris Welsh
Joe Oliver
Corky Miller
Herm Winningham
Tyler Ferguson
Nick Sandlin
Dustin Garneau
James Karinchak
Aaron Civale
Don Mattingly
Aaron Boone
Joe Girardi
Bud Black
Dave Roberts
Craig Counsell
Bob Melvin
David Ross
Terry Francona
Chris Woodward
Brandon Hyde
Mike Matheny
Torey Lovullo
Mike Shildt
Theo Epstein
Brian Cashman
Dave Kaval
Sam Kennedy
Andrew Friedman
Catherine Aker
Jim Kellogg
Jeff Bridich
Zack Rosenthal
Aaron Munoz
Scott Gehret
Zach Wilson
Gabe Bauer
Gene Budig
Mike Jasperson
Gordon Edes
David Stearns
Derek Falvey
John Mozeliak
Mike Swanson
Jon “Boog” Sciambi
Joe Buck
Colin Cowherd
Jack Curry
Jack Edwards
Jonathan Eig
Erik Sherman
Joel Goldberg
Casey Carter
Jeff Piecoro
Jim Day