OTL: Sincerely, Lou
Seventy years ago, Lou Gehrig said farewell to baseball with his moving words: "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Marking that milestone, Chris Connelly reports on correspondence between Gehrig and Dr. Paul O'Leary of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., after Gehrig’s retirement from the Yankees. Affectionate and inquisitive, the letters bring to light Gehrig’s lack of awareness about the dire nature of his illness, and the hope he expressed as he battled his debilitating condition in the final two years of his life.
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