Lou gehrig farewell speech text
Lou gehrig farewell speech analysis!
Lou Gehrig's Farewell to Baseball
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got.
Lou gehrig farewell speech text
Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?
Lou gehrig farewell to baseball speech
Sure I’m lucky.
Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins?
Lou gehrig farewell speech audio
Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy?
Sure I’m lucky.
When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that’s something.
When everybody down to the groundske