I have a photo of Lou & have the text of that speech on the wall right next to
my desk. I read it every day.
Thanks, Ray.

--- In thenewyorkyankeesfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Ray"
<thenewyorkyankeesfanclub@...> wrote:
>
> As everyone knows, this July 4th Major League Baseball is honoring the
> 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrigs famous speech.
>
> You can find it here and at the link below, which has some video links
> as well.
>
> Also take a moment to remember why we celebrate the 4th and what this
> county's freedom means and has cost us.
>
>
> "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 this
> 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 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 may have had a tough break, but I have an
> awful lot to live for."
>
>
> http://www.lougehrig.com/about/speech.htm
>