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Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and I 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?
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So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for.
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Born:
June 19, 1903
Died:
June 2, 1941
(aged 37)
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Henry Louis "Lou" or "Buster" Gehrig was an American baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, from 1923 through 1939.
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