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"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.
. . . Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?

Sure, I'm lucky.

Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology—the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy?

Sure, I’m lucky."

"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 those 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’s something.

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

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed—that’s the finest I know."
Which of the following best shows the connection between the exigence and the context of Gehrig’s speech?

Gehrig has been diagnosed with an incurable disease, and a ceremony is being held for him.
Gehrig addresses baseball fans explicitly, and he is aware that it is Independence Day.
Gehrig’s simple word choice fits the speech’s venue, and he shows appreciation.
Gehrig’s repetition of “Sure, I’m lucky” is suited to the place, time, and audience.
Gehrig’s list of rhetorical questions suggests that he is aware of the location of his speech.

Answer 1

Lou Gehrig, the Iron Horse of baseball famed for his 2,130 consecutive-games-played streak, made one of the most memorable speeches in the annals of sports. Heartfelt and poignant, this man with less than two years to live shared his feelings to an enraptured audience that left tears rolling down the cheeks of all but a few.

It was on July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, when the longtime Yankee first baseman uttered the famous words at a home plate ceremony at Yankee Stadium: “For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

The next day’s New York Times wrote “the vast gathering, sitting in absolute silence for a longer period than perhaps any baseball crowd in history, heard Gehrig himself deliver as amazing a valedictory as ever came from a ball player.”