Prince Fielder is done playing profe sional baseball because of a neck injury. That sucks; seeing someone’s career end prematurely is always sad.Bright side for Fielder, though he is not retiring https://www.marinersedges.com/seattle-mariners/nelson-cruz-jersey because of debilitating diseasethat will rapidly kill him,thenbear his name. He is unlike Lou Gehrig in that way. Both are first basemen, I suppose.MORE: These are the 50 best players in baseballThat didn’t stop someone from asking https://www.marinersedges.com/seattle-mariners/kyle-seager-jersey Fielder, at his retirement pre s conference, if he related to Gehrig’s famous “luckiest man on the face of the earth” speech.#PrinceFielder asked if he “sort of understands what Lou Gehrig was Edgar Martinez Jersey going through in his famous speech” #Rangers pic.twitter.com/DOiohj2XXX mfr24 (@mfr234) August 10, 2016Gehrig gave that speech upon his afflictionwith a debilitating disease that rapidly killed him and bore his name.Fielder, thus far, has been forced to do no such thing.Congratulations to Fielder and his family.
