"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 17 years and have never recieved anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these greand 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 honour to have known Jacob Robertson? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire. Ed Barrow? To have spent six year 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 give your right arm to beat, and ive versa, sends you a gift - that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remeber you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderfuyl 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. Wjen you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage that 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 am awful lot to live for."
-Lou Gehrig (07/04/39)
