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See more great educational videos from explore.Famous Speeches: Lou Gehrig
Posted on 20. Feb, 2010 by Kush in History
This educational video is truly an American classic, the famous Lou Gehrig speech in which he announced his retirement from baseball due to the disease that would later bear his name. When Lou Gehrig stepped up the microphone in Yankee Stadium and uttered the immortal words “today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” the world paused and took notice. The great Yankee slugger is gone, but never to be forgotten, for he truly is the pride of the Yankees.
