Lou Gehrig's Farewell To Baseball Address

Farewell to the baseball address

The speech “Farewell to baseball address” made the top 100 because he considered himself the luckiest man on the earth, and had fans that he had never received anything but kindness, and this speech is inspirational. Lou Gehrig was an American professional baseball player, a first baseman, who played 17 seasons in major league baseball for the New York Yankees. He was born in New York and he was a German immigrant and he even attended Colombia University where he studied engineering yet he played baseball whic he was very good at it. Gehrig was one of the sons to survive his parents has a terrible lifestyle because the father had a terrible time finding a job but

The argument Gehrig made was not an argument because he was focused more on being honest to his fans about his positive point of view, instead of focusing on the disease, as well as affecting his death. What the speakers think is that they showed Lou's respect for his fans by making his speech so truthful. The speech video shows that Lou regretted that he made a speech about getting out of baseball because of his disease and that's why he took a break at first but he showed that he was grateful to his fans at the time and that they understand. Lou appreciated being on the team Lou talked about his mom and dad and said living was like a blessing and having a wife that showed him courage more than he ever dreamed of he was very grateful to talk about them in his speech. In his speech, Gehrig uses logos to explain why he says"the luckiest man on the face of the earth." He means that he has been treated by fans and how blessed he was to know all of

Gehrig gave an emotional speech about how truthful he was when he was talking about his fans he spoke with a nice tone. Lou was very respected by his fans and team players from his baseball team. Facts about Lou Gehrig his lifetime 1.080 OPS ranks third all the time behind Babe Ruth and Ted Williams Gehrig’s prime stands was only excellence he just missed out on the eight seasons in 1928 which he racked up 210 hits and walked 95 times but no player has put up a 200-100 season when Tood Heltom played back in 2003. For example, Lou reminds me of since he was part of the New York Yankees my grandpa loved baseball so much and on the weekend when all the cousins would stay with him he would always take us to the park to play baseball and he was very good at it and his favorite team was the Yankees he would always wear his jerseys that he will buy and my brother and I still play baseball to this day and I know up in heaven he will be so proud that we are still playing his favorite sport. He played for the Yankees for 17 years and he even received the nickname “The Iron Horse “ due to all the games and all the variety of injuries that he had. Lou’s disease was