"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth." --from Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man Alive" Speech. 04 July 1939
Major League Baseball just started up. Normally, I don't give a lot of attention to sports, first-run movies or basically any entertainment that make the rich richer. I have one exception: I follow the Yankees somewhat and buy a little of their gear. This is due to how impressed I was with Pride of the Yankees, the Lou Gehrig story, when I was a kid.
Here's a clip with both the real Lou Gehrig with an animated story behind it. There is not much of the original speech surviving. In fact, it had to be crafted from various memories.
Here's a clip with both the real Lou Gehrig with an animated story behind it. There is not much of the original speech surviving. In fact, it had to be crafted from various memories.
The speech was first given at a Fourth of July double header in 1939.
Lou Gehrig, Class Act
Here's a version that has that short amount of Gehrig footage plus the movie version of his famous speech, starring Gary Cooper:
Gehrig's 4th of July Farewell Speech
Lou Gehrig, Class Act
Here's a version that has that short amount of Gehrig footage plus the movie version of his famous speech, starring Gary Cooper:
Gehrig's 4th of July Farewell Speech
