79 years ago today...."The luckiest man on the face of the earth”
 

July 4th 1939......Yankees Stadium......Lou Gehrig's farewell speech.

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”


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Link to entire speech...... https://www.weeklystandard.com/geoff...-july-speeches


TED Z
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What a great speech that was.

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I’ve seen the video 100 times and still get choked up seeing it each time. A true legend!

The video and speech give me chills---One of my favorite players---I read a few of his bio's and what a wonderful man he was. I cant imagine what he went through at the end of his career trying to play the game of baseball.

Can't pass by an excuse to show Gehrig stuff.

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