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On July 4, 1939, Gehrig delivered what has been called baseball''s Gettysburg Address at Yankee Stadium. There is, for now, no known, intact film of Gehrig''s speech, but instead, just a swatch of the newsreel footage has survived, incorporating his opening and closing remarks: 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, the last line, of course, having become one of the most famous, invoked, and inspiring, ever, anywhere. The New York Times account, the following day, called it one of the most touching scenes ever witnessed on a ball field, that made even hard-boiled reporters swallow hard.

The scene and the story would likely have been largely lost to history, altogether, were it not for the film, Pride of the Yankees, best known for Gary Cooper, as the dying Lou Gehrig, movingly describing himself as the luckiest man on the face of the earth, even as his body

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      Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/06/2017
      ISBN13: 9780316355056, 978-0316355056
      ISBN10: 0316355054
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      Book Synopsis

      On July 4, 1939, Gehrig delivered what has been called baseball''s Gettysburg Address at Yankee Stadium. There is, for now, no known, intact film of Gehrig''s speech, but instead, just a swatch of the newsreel footage has survived, incorporating his opening and closing remarks: 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, the last line, of course, having become one of the most famous, invoked, and inspiring, ever, anywhere. The New York Times account, the following day, called it one of the most touching scenes ever witnessed on a ball field, that made even hard-boiled reporters swallow hard.

      The scene and the story would likely have been largely lost to history, altogether, were it not for the film, Pride of the Yankees, best known for Gary Cooper, as the dying Lou Gehrig, movingly describing himself as the luckiest man on the face of the earth, even as his body

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