Maybe Gehrig wasn’t ‘the luckiest man on the face of the Earth’

Forget that bromide that an agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

MastoNet is putting Lou Gehrig’s 1935 signed Yankees contract — that earned him $31,000 — up for auction.

Minimum bid: $42,120.

— Sideline Chatter

Of course, Gehrig didn’t say he was the luckiest man. He said he “considered himself” the luckiest man, kind of the anti-Terrell Owens.