Pen and Ink Drawing by W. Langmuir Dated 27th. Sept. 1923. And a Link to Lou Gehrig.

            The jury's out as regards the attractiveness or otherwise of this outfit,  but so far the verdict's not looking too good!

So what else happened in the world on the day Mr. Langmuir drew this lady?   

Not a lot - the only event of significance to take place on 27th. September 1923 was that Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees ('The Iron Horse') hit the first of his 493 home runs.  Coincidentally he hit the last on the same date 15 years later.

On 19th. June 1939,  his 36th. birthday,  Lou was told at the Mayo Clinic that he had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.   However at his wife Eleanor's request, the gloominess of the prognosis in terms of symptoms and life expectancy was kept from him.    

To this day,  the rare condition of ALS is commonly referred to in the US as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

On the 4th. July 1939 he gave his famous retirement speech.  Here is the major part of it: 

"For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got.  Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.  I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with even one of them for a day?

When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something. 

When everybody down to the groundskeepers and the boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something.  

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that is something.  

When you have a father and mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.  

When you have a wife who's been a tower of strength and showed more courage than you ever dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

So I close in saying that I might have got a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you".

The opening part of the speech was quoted in the1993 film "Sleepless in Seattle".

Lou died on the 2nd. June 1941 without knowing that,  27 weeks later to the day,  the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor and awake a sleeping giant.

Other sufferers of ALS include Stephen Hawking (1942 - ) and David Niven (1910 - 1983).

Lou may be gone, but he is far from forgotten - in 1999, sixty years after his death, he was the leading vote-getter on the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, chosen by fans.

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