Ceremony of "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day" at Yankee Stadium in New York. Trophies and a frame on which "Don't Quit" is written, lying on a table. A large crowd of baseball fans in the stadium. Seventh Regiment Band marches during the ceremony. Dignitaries and members of the 1927 Yankees World Championship team attend the ceremony. An official of the New York Yankee team makes an announcement on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. Lou stands in front of a microphones. Cameramen take photos. Other team members stand in the background. Joe McCarthy makes a presentation. George Herman Ruth, Jr. (Babe Ruth) talks to an official. Babe Ruth, dignitaries and other members stand and pose.
Clip opens with view of some of the 40,000+ fans who crowded Yankee Stadium in New York for "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day" on July 4, 1939. The Yankees played two baseball games against the Washington Senators that day. Distant footage from left field shows Senators retiring Yankees and running off the field. Yankees run onto the field. In game two, Yankees second baseman Joe Gordon hits a long single that drives in three Yankee runs. Gehrig seen taking framed petition headlined "Don't Quit." Flag reading "1927 Champions" raised on flagpole. Members of that great Yankee team, including Babe Ruth (in white suit) and current Yankee coach Earle Combs (in Yankee uniform) walk up to home plate for the ceremony. Players, executives, dignitaries, photographers gathered at home plate. Gehrig listens to speech, head down. (The only sound bite in this clip is heard here as the announcer says: "In a case like yours, all league and glove lines are obliterated..." ) Next, in footage from game two, Yankees get hits off Washington pitcher Alex Carrasquel. Fans stand up to watch the action. Senators won the first game 3-2; Yankees took the second game, 11-1. (Note: Gehrig, the fabled "Iron Horse" of the Yankees, had to retire that year because of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis aka ALS, often called "Lou Gehrig's disease," which would kill him within two years.)
Ceremony of "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day" at Yankee Stadium in New York. A large crowd of spectators in the stadium. Seventh Regiment Band marches during the ceremony. Babe Ruth moves toward microphones. Lou Gehrig stands in front of the microphones. Lou is honored as "the greatest prototype of good sportsmanship and citizenship" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Gehrig addresses the crowd and says that he considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth and he thanks for the honor received from all fans. His Yankee teammates and their opponents that day, the Washington Senators, are lined up on the infield grass. Babe Ruth gives presentations and remarks. Lou stands beside him. George Herman Ruth, Jr. (Babe Ruth) and dignitaries stand and pose. A large crowd in the stadium.
A strike of garment workers in New York. Thousands of garment workers shout 'we want strike' at a meeting to vote for the strike. A man speaks into a microphone. A large group of workers gathers to vote for the strike.
A rocket airplane fails in the 1st mail test in Greenwood Lake, New York. A rocket designed to carry mail at a tremendous speed, is prepared for a launching. 'Gloria' written on the rocket. Men work with fueling tanks. The rocket on a ramp for launch. German-American rocket scientist, Willy Ley, wearing protecting gear, ignites the rocket. The rocket starts and flops on snow covered ground.
Hundreds of thousands witness a spectacular "Mardi Gras" parade at the World's Fair in New York. A large crowd gathers for the night time parade. Mummers and floats in the parade. Boy Scouts pass by carrying lit torches. People watch a display of fireworks.
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