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"All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire."
"People have to live their own lives. Nobody can live it for you. Nobody could have made a baseball player out of Uncle Otto, and nobody can make anything but a baseball player out of me."
"[in his farewell speech at Yankees Stadium] People all say that I've had a bad break. But today ... Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
"Lou Gehrig, I could learn to like you."
"It's the Great American Story!"
"The Crowd Worshipped Him... One Woman Understood Him!"
"Intimate and thrilling drama of a hero of the headlines... the girl who had his love and shared his life, but dared not question his one secret!"
"Gary Cooper - Lou Gehrig"
"Teresa Wright - Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig"
"Babe Ruth - himself"
"Walter Brennan - Sam Blake"
"Dan Duryea - Hank Hanneman"
"Elsa Janssen - Mom Gehrig"
"Ludwig Stössel - Pop Gehrig"
"Virginia Gilmore - Myra"
"Bill Dickey - himself"
"Ernie Adams - Miller Huggins"
"Pierre Watkin - Mr. Twitchell"
"Harry Harvey - Joe McCarthy"
"Robert W. Meusel - himself"
"Mark Koenig - himself"
"Bill Stern - himself"
"Addison Richards - Coach"
"Hardie Albright - Van Tuyl"
"Edward Fielding - Clinic doctor"
"George Lessey - Mayor of New Rochelle"
"Edgar Barrier - Hospital doctor"
"Douglas Croft - Lou Gehrig as a boy"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.