The Pride of the Yankees

Year: 1942

Country: USA

Tagline: THE Private LIFE OF A GREAT Public HERO! (original print ad - mostly caps)  »

Plot: The life of Yankee baseball great Lou Gehrig known as the 'Iron Horse' from his childhood, through his baseball career, battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to his final tribute where he declared that he was "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Rpundly cited for a lack of realistic baseball scenes and the Cary Coopers lack of athletic ability. Cooper was righthanded and Gehrig was lefthanded. When the filmed the baseball action scenes they reversed the film.The movie tells the story of the life and career of the famed baseball player, Lou Gehrig, who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name.

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