MovieMantz: Top 10 Baseball Movies Of All-Time

‘Pride Of The Yankees’ (1942)

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10) “The Pride of the Yankees”
Year of Release: 1942
The Coach (aka the director): Sam Wood
The Lineup: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
The Pitch: Gary Cooper plays Lou Gehrig – a.k.a “The Iron Horse” – the famous NY Yankee who played a whopping 2,130 consecutive games before dying at the age of 37 from ALS, a deadly nerve disease. Cooper knocks it out of the park with his unforgettable “luckiest man on the face of the earth” speech.

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