This seems to be the summer of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. It is also the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s speech announcing his retirement from Major League Baseball following his diagnosis of ALS:
“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 the earth… 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…
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 you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so that 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.
… I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.”
— Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939 (to read his full speech, click HERE)
Here’s to finding a cure for this horrible disease.
In honor of the many Mommybites moms participating in the the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Mommybites has made a donation to: www.als-ny.org.
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