Stanley Weston/Getty ImagesScrollInaugural Lou Gehrig Day ImagesJune 3, 2021Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.Lou GehrigMary DeCicco/MLB PhotosDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosSteph Chambers/Getty ImagesMary DeCicco/MLB PhotosAdrian Kraus/APDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosRob Tringali/MLB PhotosRich Pilling/MLB PhotosMurray Becker/APGehrig, for many, respresented the common blue-collar man. Gehrig was everyman.John SterlingRob Tringali/MLB PhotosRob Tringali/MLB PhotosRob Tringali/MLB PhotosRob Tringali/MLB PhotosRob Tringali/MLB PhotosKevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesKevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosJonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosMichael Ciaglo/Getty ImagesJonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesRob Tringali/MLB PhotosHarry How/Getty ImagesNorm Hall/Getty ImagesAPI would not have traded two minutes of joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another.Eleanor GehrigJonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosKevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosAdam Hunger/Getty ImagesMary DeCicco/MLB PhotosDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosRob Tringali/MLB PhotosNorm Hall/Getty ImagesMary DeCicco/MLB PhotosKevin Hoffman/Getty ImagesTed S. Warren/APAlex Trautwig/MLB PhotosKyle Rivas/Getty ImagesDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosKyle Rivas/Getty ImagesMorry Gash/APNuccio DiNuzzo/Getty ImagesDaniel Shirey/MLB PhotosJoe Sargent/Getty ImagesKyle Rivas/Getty ImagesTom Sande/APHe died as he had lived. Bravely, quietly.Frank Graham
