The untold story behind the first great sports film... The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic
On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig stood in Yankee Stadium and gave a speech that contained the phrase that would become legendary: "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
He died two years later and his fiery widow, Eleanor, wanted nothing more than to keep his memory alive. With her forceful will, she and the irascible producer Samuel Goldwyn quickly agreed to make a film based on Gehrig's life, "The Pride of the Yankees." Goldwyn didn't understand -- or care about -- baseball. For him this film was the emotional story of a quiet, modest hero who married a spirited woman who was the love of his life, and, after a storied career, gave a short speech that transformed his legacy. With the world at war and soldiers dying on foreign soil, it was the kind of movie America needed.
Using original scripts, letters, memos, and other rare documents, Richard Sandomir tells the behind-the-scenes story of how a classic was born. The search to find the actor to play Gehrig; the stunning revelations Eleanor made to the scriptwriter Paul Gallico about her life with Lou; the intensive training Gary Cooper underwent to learn how to catch, throw, and hit a baseball for the first time.
On a warm summer evening, Richard Sandomir led our intimate Clubhouse conversation and brought "The Pride of the Yankees" to life. Listen in...
NY Giants Preservation Society special guest: Ed Lucas
A special evening in the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse with Nicholas Dawidoff
"No No: A Dockumentary" - special panel discussion with director Jeffrey Radice and sports agent Tom Reich
"Big Red" with Ken Griffey
"Stars and Strikes" with author Dan Epstein
NY Giants Preservation Society Presents: "1954" with Bill Madden
"Wrigley Field" with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ira Berkow
"The Fight Of Their Lives" with John Rosengren
"Babe Ruth's Called Shot" with Ed Sherman
"Down To The Last Pitch" with Tim Wendel
"NY Giants Preservation Society event with the children of Dusty Rhodes"
"The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams" with Ben Bradlee Jr.
"The Sabermetric Revolution" with Andrew Zimbalist
New York Giants Preservation Society - Winter 2014 meeting with special guest Ken Davidoff
"The Groundbreaking History of WFAN" with author Tim Sullivan and special guest Rich Ackerman
"Inside the Clubhouse Look at Baseball Scouting"
"Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball" with Hal Bock
"Smoky Joe Wood" with Gerald Wood
"Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball" with Michael G. Long
Peter Magowan & the NY Giants Preservation Society
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