What we remember most about this quiet man of dignity is a speech. How ironic. It's July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium, a little more than two months after he played his ...
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. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have ...
The image is replayed around the world every day. Gary Cooper, portraying Lou Gehrig, standing in front of those microphones, uttering those words. "Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the ...