The Yankees re-created the speech in a tribute shown on the video board of their new $1.5 billion ballpark, showing Gehrig reciting the first sentence before cutting away to Jeter for the signature line.

"Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth," the current Yankees captain said.

The Yankees 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 his life two years later.

All major-league players, coaches, and on-field personnel wore patches yesterday to honor Gehrig's legacy.

Gehrig played first base for the Yanks for 17 years, hitting .340 with 493 home runs and 1,995 RBIs.

Clemens claim. Roger Clemens' lawyer says the pitcher was not among the more than 100 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003.

Rusty Hardin told the New York Times that Clemens obtained the results from the drug-testing company and provided them to Congress before his 2008 testimony by waiving his right to keep them private.

The results would not affect a federal grand jury's investigation into whether Clemens should be indicted for perjury.

Clemens disputed former trainer Brian McNamee's claims that he injected the pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998 to 2001. McNamee made no assertions about 2003, and HGH was not tested for.