Lou Gehrig retired from the Yankees on April 30, 1939. While he was being treated for his disease that August at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, radio station KROC did a seven minute interview with him.
Everyone knows his voice from his famous speech heard reverberating around Yankee Stadium. But this interview (captured on vinyl recording) reveals a voice and presence that would have made a good sports broadcaster. It's an interesting listen. Gehrig, by the way, was asked who the greatest ballplayers of all time were. His answers: Ruth, Cobb and Honus Wagner.
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25258685/listen-lou-gehrigs-1939-radio-interview
Everyone knows his voice from his famous speech heard reverberating around Yankee Stadium. But this interview (captured on vinyl recording) reveals a voice and presence that would have made a good sports broadcaster. It's an interesting listen. Gehrig, by the way, was asked who the greatest ballplayers of all time were. His answers: Ruth, Cobb and Honus Wagner.
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25258685/listen-lou-gehrigs-1939-radio-interview