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Bronx Epitaph: How Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" Speech Defined the Yankee Legend

Bronx Epitaph: How Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" Speech Defined the Yankee Legend

Wagner, Steven K.

Paperback

Series: Excelsior Editions

Baseball & SoftballGeneral SociologyRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1438491808
ISBN13: 9781438491806
Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
Published: Jan 1 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous Luckiest Man speech.

When Lou Gehrig stepped to the plate on Independence Day 1939, he was not there to deliver a home run. For the first time in seventeen years, Gehrig was there to deliver his heart. In recent weeks he had lost his job as the Yankees' first baseman as well as the good health that had made him the team's respected Iron Horse and was facing a death sentence. Nervous and fidgety as he walked through a forest of microphones, Gehrig collected himself and delivered thirteen words that will live forever: Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

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