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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Lou Gehrig Day

Gamingboy Posted: July 04, 2009 at 09:56 AM | 8 comment(s)
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   1. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66)  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 12:31 PM (#3242108)
I guess no clip exists of the full speech--this famous clip contains only the first and last sentences
   2. vortex of dissipation  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 12:49 PM (#3242129)
I guess no clip exists of the full speech--this famous clip contains only the first and last sentences.


I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure that Jonathan Eig's Luckiest Man noted that no film exists of the entire speech.
   3. Tom Nawrocki  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 12:56 PM (#3242141)
It's a good thing Fox wasn't covering the game that day.

GEHRIG: Today I consider myself.... the -
ZELASKO: That's great, Lou, now let's throw it back upstairs to Tim McCarver with a preview of today's pitching matchup.
   4. Eric J  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 01:07 PM (#3242156)
ZELASKO: That's great, Lou, now let's throw it back upstairs to Tim McCarver with a preview of today's pitching matchup. a rambling anecdote about Bob Gibson.

This seems more likely.
   5. AndrewJ  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 01:17 PM (#3242167)
I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure that Jonathan Eig's Luckiest Man noted that no film exists of the entire speech.

No complete audio of the speech exists, either. Eig reports that only four sentences of Gehrig's speech survive on recordings.
   6. Gamingboy  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 01:54 PM (#3242188)
I think that the lack of the whole speech is the reason that Gary Cooper's POTY speech is sometimes shown instead.
   7. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates)  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 02:51 PM (#3242225)
Not unlike Metropolis, it's highly likely that a full version will show up in some forgotten theater in Buenos Aires (or for that matter, Havana).
   8. Fly is Part of the Landed Gentry  Posted: July 04, 2009 at 09:34 PM (#3242360)
No complete audio of the speech exists, either. Eig reports that only four sentences of Gehrig's speech survive on recordings.

How is that even possible? There were at least 3 movie cameras there. They clearly knew it was important...why would you only save 2 sentences worth?
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