Pride of the Yankees

Lou Gehrig, a major league baseball player who at the time of a series of unfortunate events, adopted a disease that happened to be the first who had been discovered with Lou Gehrig's disease. This is a documentation film about the life of Lou. With a heart breaking end where he bids farewell to 62,00 of his fans on July 4, 1939.Though this was tragic, the most tragic part of the movie was the forbidden knowledge that his wife knew of his soon to come death, which he didn't know that she knew.

                                                                        Movie Cover for Pride of the Yankees


This film has its ups and downs throughout the movie. The ups being the perfect relationship he shares with his beloved mother, the marriage of he and his wife, and his abduction into the Yankees. The downs are truly the entire ending. Those being when he is diagnosed, when his wife figures about his disease, but doesn't let him know to spare his feelings,  and when he bids farewell to his fans and teammates. 

                                                       Lou Gerif (Gary Cooper) and Babe Ruth

Gary cooper plays the triumphant Lou Gerig, the famous renowned baseball player. Babe Ruth, is portrayed of course by Babe Ruth. Teresa Wright plays Eleanor, his adored wife, with whom he had always liked and possibly loved.