Post your Lou Gehrig's "... the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."

[FrankWakefield]

70 years ago, July 4, 1939, what a day, what a ballplayer, what a man.

"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 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? 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 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 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 that 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 might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you."

— Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939

[ChiefBenderForever]

One of the greatest examples of 'Life isn't fair' is the story of Lou Gehrig, he stayed positive to the end and was thankful for everything.

[ErikV]

One of my favorite cards in my collection:

[DaveH]

My 2

[triwak]

Iron man

[Peter_Spaeth]

I hope whoever consigned this to Mastro has been paid.

[deadballpaul]

Gehrig_26-29.jpg

[whycough]

Acrylic painting by Armand Lamontagne.

[Ladder7]

[tedzan]

FRANK

Thanks for posting Lou's memorable speech this 4th of July weekend.


1932 BASEBALL magazine photo



TED Z

[whycough]

#160 is robin's egg blue.

[David Halpen]

This is my only Gehrig.

[ecRich]

Uncataloged 1936 Wheaties mini

[Cat]

[IMG][/IMG]

[tedzan]

A tremendous clutch hitter, as is evident with his still standing ML record of 23 Grand Slams (with just 493 HR's).

A clutch hitter in World Series play, Lou's BA = .361 with 35 RBI's in 7 Series. And, check-out his numbers in the
4-game 1928 W.S......

AAB = 17
BA = .545
SLA = .706
HR = 4
R = 5
RBI = 9
H = 6
BB = 6
K's = 0

Furthermore, from 1923-1934, Lou had a tremendous Runs Produced Index (RPI) of a Run/2.7 AB's.

For comparison, from 1923-1934, Babe Ruth's RPI = Run/2.4 AB's.

Gehrig and Ruth combined for an average of 3.2 runs produced per game for the Yankees, everyday for 12 con-
secutive years (1923-1934).
This is an amazing statistic....that I don't think can be matched in BB.







TED Z

[tcdyess]

My one and only.. so far!!!