Less than two years after Gehrig gave this speech, on June 2, 1941, he died in Riverdale, N.Y. at the age of 39. ... The first two lines out of Gehrig's mouth could easily be the most famous in all of sport's history, "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. ... I think this shows just how grateful Gehrig really was to be playing ball all of those years and he is trying to show the audience how much their support for him through the years really meant to him. ... Sure, I"m lucky." ... I see him basically giving logic behind his words saying tha...

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and, "Do I dare?" 39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") ... I grow old ... 121 I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. 122 Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? ... Ezra Pound wrote Harriet Monroe on Jan. 31, 1915: I dislike the paragraph about Hamlet, but it is an early and cherished bit and T.E. won't give it up, and as it is the only portion of the poem that most readers will like at first reading, I don't see that it will do ...

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