{"id":2206,"date":"2021-06-02T16:41:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2021-06-03T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:28:55","slug":"mlb-celebrates-its-inaugural-lou-gehrig-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/mlb-celebrates-its-inaugural-lou-gehrig-day\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB celebrates its inaugural Lou Gehrig Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LGD-Banner-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LGD-Banner-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LGD-Banner-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LGD-Banner-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/LGD-Banner.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, June 2, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/lou-gehrig-day-june-2nd-2021-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lou Gehrig Day across Major League Baseball<\/a>. The day will honor his legacy on the field and raises awareness about ALS throughout the world. As a person living with ALS, Lou Gehrig&#8217;s famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nNLKPaThYkE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luckiest Man speech<\/a> is a source of strength and inspiration.  \u201cSo I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I\u2019ve got an awful lot to live for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why June 2? That is the day in 1925 Gehrig began his streak of playing 2,130 consecutive games. He removed himself from the lineup almost 14 years later due to symptoms that would later lead to a diagnosed of ALS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lou Gehrig Day Promo Video starring Johnny Bench, Aaron Judge, Nolan Arenado...and MORE!!\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kkBeRZcREs0?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to help? Consider a donation to <a href=\"https:\/\/iamals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I am ALS<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/teamgleason.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Team Gleason<\/a>. Or keep it local with a donation for Patient Services to the ALS Association Northern New England Chapter, at PO Box 207, Concord, NH 03302-0207.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center has-blue-color has-medium-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-small-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Thanks for reading my blog. Contact me at norwichobserver [at] gmail.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, June 2, is Lou Gehrig Day across Major League Baseball. The day will honor his legacy on the field and raises awareness about ALS throughout the world. 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That is the day in 1925 Gehrig <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/mlb-celebrates-its-inaugural-lou-gehrig-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  MLB celebrates its inaugural Lou Gehrig Day<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-als","category-lou-gehrig"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MLB celebrates its inaugural Lou Gehrig Day - Norwich Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/norwichobserver.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/mlb-celebrates-its-inaugural-lou-gehrig-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MLB celebrates its inaugural Lou Gehrig Day - Norwich Observer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, June 2, is Lou Gehrig Day across Major League Baseball. 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