New York Yankees vs Seattle Mariners August 22, 2010

Instead, of course, Gehrig's fans were watching Gary Cooper star as him in "Pride of the Yankees," one of the most-watched sports movies. Now it is 2003, and 100 years later we are celebrating a hero's birth while also paying attention to the disease that took his life. Gehrig's name may have more importance than ever. On one day last summer, a different celebrity at each Major League ballpark gave a rendition of Gehrig's "luckiest man" speech. ALS is a disease that has touched many lives since his. Last weekend, for example, maybe the biggest story at golf's U.S. Open was Tom Watson's longtime caddy, Bruce Edwards, who was diagnosed in January with ALS.