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New York Yankees (27x World Series Champions)

On this day in sports history in....

1939 - Lou Gehrig retired from major league baseball.



The text of the speech:

"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 this earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

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. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? 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 everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so 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.

So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."

Gehrig died less than two years later, on June 2, 1941, at age 37.


On this day in sports history in....

1939 -- Lou Gehrig plays the final game of his 2,130 consecutive games streak. He would never play again.
 
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Yankees Acquire Aroldis Chapman, a Potent Arm With Baggage in Hand

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/s...by-new-york-yankees-from-cincinnati-reds.html

Reached for comment, the Yankees' front office responded: "We understand we may come under fire for our decision, but would it kill you to give the guy a chance?" The team representative then elaborated on prime bullet points that supported their decision: "Let's face it, with a 100+mph fastball, Chapman has a gun for an arm. And when push comes to shove, we don't expect Aroldis to choke in a big game."

Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner praised the team's trade Wednesday at Major League Baseball's owners meetings, saying Chapman is "innocent until proven otherwise."

Innocent, or whatever you want to call it.

#OneMoreReasonToHateTheYankees
 
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The list is almost shorter of the teams Billy didn't manage:
  • Minnesota Twins (1969)
  • Detroit Tigers (1971–1973)
  • Texas Rangers (1973–1975)
  • New York Yankees (1975–1978, 1979)
  • Oakland Athletics (1980–1982)
  • New York Yankees (1983, 1985, 1988)
:slappy:
 
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