In Lou Gehrig's Farewell to Baseball Address, he says the following, “Fans, 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 this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.”

What is Gehrig’s purpose for writing this text?


entertain

inform

persuade

explain