Newsday 75 Years later, Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech still unforgettable Northeastern University law professor Roger Abrams, who has authored several books on baseball history, spoke about why Gehrig’s speech still matters all these years later. “He’s taken on mythic proportions,” he said. “Baseball really reflects American society, and in every myth, you need the tragic figure. And he, after just an extraordinary career, becomes the […]