The Luckiest Man On The Face Of The Earth
After delivering his “The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth” speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, baseball legend Lou Gehrig. After receiving an ALS diagnosis lately, Gehrig retired from baseball before taking his own life two years later.
Christmas Truce
Soldiers were seen playing football in no-land man’s during the Christmas Truce, a series of unofficial cease-fires that occurred along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914. They do claim that soccer/football brings people together…