Trivia: Which baseball player’s farewell coined him the “luckiest man” on Earth?
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Hank Aaron
Joe DiMaggio
The correct answer is Lou Gehrig
So why is this answer correct? : New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig was a powerful hitter who played 2,130 consecutive games. The “Iron Horse’s” career came to a sudden end after he was diagnosed with ALS, now known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He said goodbye to the game at a ceremony at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, telling the crowd, “For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” Gehrig died in 1941, and his life — and farewell speech — was immortalized in the film “The Pride of the Yankees.”