The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth March 3, 1943

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Baseball legend Lou Gehrig says goodbye to being a first baseman in a speech in the Yankee Stadium. He is played by actor Gary Cooper in the biographical film The Pride of the Yankees.

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I have had the further honor of living with and playing with these men on my right, the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees of today. I have been given fame and undeserved praise by the boys up there behind the wire in the press box - my friends, the sports writers. I have worked under the two greatest managers of all time, Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy.

I have a mother and father who fought to give me health and a solid background in my youth.

I have a wife, a companion for life, who has shown me more courage than I ever knew.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

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Henry Louis Gehrig: The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth

March 3, 1943 (about 81 years ago)

Baseball legend Lou Gehrig says goodbye to being a first baseman in a speech in the Yankee Stadium. He is played by actor Gary Cooper in the biographical film The Pride of the Yankees.

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