Thanks for posting that link, Paul.
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Originally Posted by the 'stache
I saw something quite poignant on the back of the Gehrig 1934 Goudey card I want to buy at some point this spring, #37.
"I love the game of baseball, and hope to be in there batting them out for many years to come. Fortune has been kind to me..."
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This line has always struck a bittersweet chord with me. Such a great card, too.
I also recall watching Ken Burns' Baseball series and hearing the recital of a letter Lou wrote to his beloved wife, Eleanor. He used such beautiful, heartfelt phrasings, bordering on being poetic, that they've remained with me to this day (the bolded part was used in the Baseball documentary)....
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The depth of Lou’s feeling toward Eleanor was underlined by a handwritten letter he sent from Detroit the day after he terminated his active career. In part, this is what he wrote:
“My sweetheart—and please grant that we may ever be such—for what the hell else matters—that thing yesterday I believe and hope was the turning point in my life for the future as far as taking life too seriously is concerned. It was inevitable, although I dreaded the day, and my thoughts were with you constantly—how the thing would affect you and I—that was the big question and the most important thought underlying everything. I broke before the game because I thought so much of you. Not because I didn’t know you are the bravest kind of partner but because my inferiority grabbed me and made me wonder and ponder if I could possibly prove myself worthy of you. As for me, the road may come to a dead end here, but why should it? Seems like our back is to the wall now, but there usually comes a way out. Where and what, I know not, but who can tell that it might not lead to greater things. Time will tell. . .”
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borrowed from:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Ma...01/Gehrig.html