Almost everyone has heard the clip from Lou Gehrig’s farewell to baseball speech where he says, “today (today…today) I consider myself the luckiest (luckiest..luckiest) man on the face of this earth. Well check out the whole speech. It reads like a beautiful piece of American folk art.
Lou Gehrig’s Farewell Speech
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