July 4th - Yankees Edition

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July 4th is an important date in our country's history. It is also an important date in the history of the New York Yankees.

Former owner, the late George M Steinbrenner III, was born on this date in 1930.



Yankees radio play-by-play broadcaster John Sterling* was also born on this date, in 1938.

*Sterling will miss his first broadcast since 1989 today, as he takes the weekend off, to deal with health issues. Best of luck to John.



A year after Sterling was born, in 1939, Lou Gehrig gave his famous "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" speech. Head to Rob Adam's blog post from this morning to read more on that.

And finally, on July 4th, 1983, Dave Righetti threw a no-hitter against the Red Sox. Righetti struck on nine batters and walked four. The final out was a strike-out of then-future Yankee Wade Boggs.