NEW YORK – Derek Jeter helped Major League Baseball commemorate the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s luckiest man speech Saturday, reading the famous line from the icon’s stirring words during a video tribute before the New York Yankees’ game against the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Yankees also placed a wreath of red, white and blue flowers by Gehrig’s monument in Monument Park and made a $25,000 donation to Major League Baseball’s “4 (diamond) ALS” initiative, an effort to raise awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – the disease that forced Gehrig out of baseball in 1939 and took...

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