PHOTO: Lou Gehrig, in color, says goodbye

The folks over at USA Today's For The Win have uncovered a gem on Reddit -- a subreddit, as the kids say -- called Colorized History, in which users add color to iconic black-and-white photographs. 

Check out this brilliant color shot of Yankees legend Lou Gehrig, who said goodbye to baseball on July 4, 1939. 

Image courtesy Reddit user ExtraNoise, via For The Win

Less than two years later, Gehrig was dead, passing on June 2, 1941, his life cut short by ALS. 

For more on Gehrig's remarkable career, and The Iron Horse's goodbye speech, in which he called himself, knowing he would soon die, "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth," check out the video below, and appreciate history: