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

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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.”

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

TED Z
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