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From Ken Burns' excellent Baseball documentary series, actual newsreel footage of Lou Gehrig's 'lucky guy' farewell speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939.
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Added: 16th March 2009
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Gary Cooper, as Lou Gehrig, delivering Hollywood's version of his famous 'lucky guy' farewell speech in the biopic Pride of the Yankees (1942). Pass the tissues.
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Added: 16th March 2009
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Great tribute video to Lou Gehrig, my favorite ballplayer of all time. It begins with real footage of his famous farewell speech and cuts to action shots.
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Added: 26th April 2008
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The scariest sight ever to face a big league pitcher: Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, pictured here in a photo I'd date around 1931. In 1927 Babe Ruth hit a record 60 homers to lead the American League. Gehrig was second with 47. In third place was another Yankee, Tony Lazzeri, with a mere 18.
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Added: 5th August 2008
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Lou Gehrig's remarkable streak of consecutive MLB games played reached 2,000 during the 1938 season, as this playful publicity photo shows. Early in the 1939 season the streak would end in Detroit at 2,130. Two years later Gehrig was dead from ALS at age 38.
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Added: 17th September 2009
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In the days before major league ballplayers were millionaires, many earned much-needed extra cash by engaging in post-season 'barnstroming tours.' Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were no exception. Following the 1927 season, the spectacular Yankee duo embarked on a westward tour through cities and towns large and small. They competed with and against local teams in front of huge star-struck crowds. Ruth, the main attraction, got a huge percentage of the gates and pocketed about $70,000 for the tour. Gehrig got a flat $10,000--not bad considering the New York Yankees only paid him $8,000 for the 1927 season.
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Added: 22nd October 2009
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