So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. - Lou Gehrig
" "So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.
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About Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19 1903 – June 2 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Major League Baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. He set several Major League and American League records and was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association. He played for the New York Yankees until his career was cut short by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now commonly referred to in the United States as Lou Gehrig's Disease. TOC
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Iron Horse
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Henry Louis Gehrig
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Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig
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Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and I 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?
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