#450 Lou Gehrig - The Lost Memoir, Alan Gaff
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode #450.
We all know that music, and as part of our Art of Living, author interview series, our guest today is baseball writer, historian, Alan Gaff. Alan Gaff is author of the new book, The Lost Memoir of Lou Gehrig.
I loved the book, and for those of us eager to have baseball back in our lives, but watching Korean Baseball Organization's brand of high energy baseball, and hoping baseball will return soon, you'll love this book, too.
Lou Gehrig, one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived, is so much more than the horrible disease that killed him. The first half of this book is told by Lou Gehrig in his own words through articles he wrote during his championship season in New York City. To be able to read Gehrig's words describing his entrance into professional baseball was priceless. I'll offer my thanks to our guest today, Alan D. Gaff, right now for collecting these forgotten newspaper columns.
That, of course, is our guest today, Alan Gaff reading from his new book, Lou Gehrig, The Lost Memoir. And we heard the famous farewell speech by Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium, a baseball legend.
Scott Boras, an attorney for baseball players, wrote a recent editorial in The NY Times, in which he said so eloquently, "In some of America's darkest moments, the country has turned to Major League Baseball to bring hope and normalcy back to everyday life. It is time again for baseball to serve. The millions of baseball fans in America can continue to do a small part for the nation by staying at home while enjoying a sense of hope and normalcy and watching the game we love."
In the meantime, we can enjoy Alan Gaff's new book, The Lost Memoir of Lou Gehrig.
Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show via internet phone, author Alan Gaff.
Please check out Alan Gaff's new book:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Nad Old Better Show, I'm Paul Vogel-Sang, and this is episode number 450. |
| 0:06.0 | At the start of summer, we all know that music. |
| 0:09.0 | And as part of our Art of Living Author, interview series, our guest today is baseball writer, historian Alan Gaff. |
| 0:16.2 | Alan Gaff is author of the great new baseball book, The Lost Memoir of Lou Gehrig. |
| 0:21.6 | I loved this book. And for those of us eager to have baseball |
| 0:25.4 | back in our lives but watching Korean baseball organization's brand of |
| 0:30.3 | high-energy baseball and hoping baseball will return soon. |
| 0:34.0 | You're going to love this book too. |
| 0:36.0 | Lou Gehrig, one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived, is so much more than the horrible |
| 0:41.5 | disease that killed him. |
| 0:43.4 | The first half of this book is told by Lou Gehrig in his own words through articles he wrote |
| 0:48.8 | during his championship season in New York City. To be able to read Garrig's words describing his entrance |
| 0:55.8 | into professional baseball was priceless. This is a wonderful, wonderful story. |
| 1:00.4 | I'll offer my thanks right now to our guest today Alan Gaff for collecting these |
| 1:05.6 | forgotten newspaper articles and for writing this wonderful biography of |
| 1:11.2 | Lou Gehrig. Throughout the 1920s, Lou Gehrig was one of the most famous men in the country. |
| 1:17.0 | He was cementing his reputation as a baseball player of true greatness. |
| 1:21.0 | Lou, the Iron Horse, showed up every day and played his heart out. |
| 1:24.8 | His gentle charm and home run hitting made him a star at a time when the country was |
| 1:29.6 | hungry for them. The roaring 20s positioned baseball at the heart of the nation's collective consciousness |
| 1:35.3 | and the Yankees were at the top of the American League. In the seven years since Babe Ruth had joined the team in |
| 1:40.3 | 1920 they had finished first four times and had won the |
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