Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech
7/2/2009 11:15:00 AM | Baseball
“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.
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?
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?
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 NewYork 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 groundskeepers and those boys in white coats
remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a
wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her
own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother
who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your
body - it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of
strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the
finest I know. So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break,
but I have an awful lot to live for.”
Highlights: BASE | Columbia 8, Penn 9
Saturday, April 04
Highlights: BASE | Columbia 5, Penn 9
Saturday, April 04
Highlights: BASE | Columbia 21, Penn 11
Friday, April 03
Highlights: BASE | Columbia 8, Fordham 9
Tuesday, March 31
