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Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest man alive" speech (day after)...
Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest man alive" speech (day after)...
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July 06, 1939
THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 6, 1939
* The day after Gehrig's farewell speech
* "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth"
* New York Yankees baseball game at stadium
The sport's section (page 29) has a four column headline: "Yankees Top Senators in Home-Run Battle" with subheads that include: "Long Homer By DiMaggio" and more with photo and box scores. Text includes: "The last echoes of the unprecedented Gehrig demonstration having faded, the Stadium pulse went back to normal. The crowd, in fact, took a subnormal drop to 3,874" (see)
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete with all 478 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.
Category: The 20th Century
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