美国英语听力80篇3 Lesson48

[00:10.06]Gehrig continued to improve as a player.

[00:14.05]By 1924, pitchers 1 for opposing teams were having bad dreams about Lou Gchrig and Babe Ruth.

[00:23.04]Ruth hit sixty home runs that year.

[00:26.36]Gchrig hit forty seven and won the American League's Most Valuable Player Award.

[00:32.86]Nobody was surprised when the Yankees won the World Series.

[00:37.85]Gehrig, however, almost did not play.

[00:41.56]His mother had to have an operation.

[00:44.93]He felt he should bc with her.

[00:47.60]Mrs Gehrig and the Yankees' manager urged him to play in the World Series.

[00:53.37]His mother recovered.

[00:55.67]More major threats to Gehrig's record of continuous 2 games played took place in 1929.

[01:03.61]His back, legs and hands were injured.

[01:08.60]He was hit on the head by a throw one day as he tried to reach home plate.

[01:14.84]Another Yankee player said, "Every time hc played, it hurt him."

[01:20.54]Gchrig felt good in 1930.

[01:25.00]He said his secret was getting ten hours of sleep each night and drinking a large amount of water.

[01:31.64]Lou Gehrig now was becoming one of the greatest players in baseball history.

[01:37.99]He hit three home runs in the World Series of 1932.

[01:44.41]His batting average was five-twenty nine.

[01:48.36]The manager of an opposing team, the Chicago Cubs 3, said of Gehrig,

[01:53.82]"I did not think a player could be that good."

[01:57.63]In 1933, Gehrig married Eleanor Twitchell.

[02:02.93]Eleanor helped him take his place as one of baseball's most famous players.

[02:08.81]The younger Lou Gehrig had stayed away from strangers when he could.

[02:13.98]The married Lou Gehrig was much more friendly.

[02:17.90]As time went on, Gehrig played in game after game.

[02:22.89]He appeared not to have thought about his record number of continuous games played

[02:29.05]until a newspaper reporter talked to him about it.

[02:33.50]An accident during a special game played in Virginia almost broke the record.

[02:39.27]Gehrig was taken to a hospital after being hit in the head with a pitch.

[02:45.46]He played the next day, though.

[02:48.31]He just wore a bigger hat so people could not see his injury.

[02:54.03]Gehrig completed his 2,000th game on May 31st, 1938.

[03:01.11]That was almost two times as many continuous games as anyone ever had played before.

[03:09.65]Gehrig finished that season with a batting average of almost 300.

[03:15.11]He scored 115 runs.

[03:18.77]He batted in almost as many runs.

[03:22.42]But the Lou Gehrig of that year was not the Lou Gehrig of earlier years.

[03:28.54]He walked and ran like an old man.

[03:32.69]He had trouble with easy catches and throws.

[03:36.87]Yet his manager commented, "Everybody is asking what is wrong with Gehrig.

[03:43.58]I wish I had more players on this club doing as poorly as he is doing."

[03:48.49]Gehrig thought his problems were temporary.

[03:52.88]Then he fell several times the next winter while ice-skating with Eleanor.

[03:58.94]He had trouble holding onto things.

[04:02.10]And he failed to hit in three games as the next season opened.

[04:07.64]In May 1939, he finally told his manager he could not play.

[04:14.85]Lou Gehrig had played in 2,130 games without missing 4 any that his team played.

[04:23.05]Gehrig observed his thirty-sixth birthday on June Nineteenth.

[04:28.70]That same day, doctors told him he had a deadly disease 5 that attacks the muscles in the body.

[04:37.29]The disease is called amyotrophic lateral 6 sclerosis.

[04:42.07]Today, it is known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

[04:45.94]Gehrig did not act like a dying 7 man, though.

[04:50.25]He refused to act frightened or sad.

[04:53.62]On July 4th, 1939 more than 60,000 people went to Yankee Stadium to honor 8 one of America's greatest baseball players.

[05:06.26]Gehrig told the crowd he still felt he was lucky.

[05:11.38](His words) echoed 9 throughout the stadium.

[05:14.54]"I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

[05:19.63]I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you."

[05:29.27]Gehrig fought his sickness.

[05:32.38]But he became weaker and weaker.

[05:35.26]He died on June 2, 1941, He was thirty-seven years old.

[05:41.68]America mourned the loss of a great baseball hero