panicxitsxbrea (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Aah, what a gent. I don't think that's the ONLY 'right way to live' by a long shot, but it's a nice personality type to come across now and then. I'm a Sox fan but all rivalry aside, what a great person for the way he handled it.

RaiderEleven (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What a class act and what a ceremony!! He hit 23 Grand Slams and hit four home runs in one game. Played from 1925 to 1938, .340 lifetime batting average, and played 2130 consecutive games, among many, many records: "The Iron Horse". Still missing Lou Gehrig!!

pdigaudio (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I always wondered .. and have never read a satisfactory explanation ... of why the filmmakers of Pride of the Yankees felt it was necessary to rewrite Gehrig's speech for the movie. Listen to the clip from the movie. It's available on YouTube. The speech is noticeably different from the one Gehrig actually delivered.

pdigaudio (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I always wondered .. and have never read a satisfactory explanation ... of why the filmmakers of Pride of the Yankees felt it was necessary to rewrite Gehrig's speech for the movie. Listen to the clip from the movie. It's available on YouTube. The speech is noticably different from the one Gehrig actually delivered.

astrolifter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@drone81 Yeah but in overcoming tragedy, like you stated, there was also inherit sadness. That cannot be denied.

MrRon752 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

poor Gehrig

drone81 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@astrolifter uh no not really, not unless you're a masochistic sadbrains douchebag who sits around fondling razor blades for fun. tragedies are tragic and terrible and destructive and there is nothing inspiring about watching a great athlete systematically dismantled by a debilitating and cruel disease. overcoming tragedy, as gehrig did, is something else entirely

alexwilsonNC (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The greatest first baseman of all time. Not only that, but he was a REAL MAN. He accepted that his life was going to be forever changed, he didn't cry, he didn't complain, he said he was the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

astrolifter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@drone81 Sad can also be inspiring numb nuts.

xltrt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

if only today's baseball players were as humble as this great gentleman children would truly have a role model to emulate