The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

Richard Sandomir and Marty Appel — authors, baseball experts and friends for over 25 years — discuss the making of the classic film The Pride of the Yankees, the subject of Sandomir’s latest book.

Hear how Sam Goldwyn’s insisted that the movie be a romance about a heroic man who dies young from a mysterious disease; about Gary Cooper’s need to learn to play baseball and convert from a righthander to a lefthander, like Gehrig; about Eleanor Gehrig’s influence on the film, from her characterization of Lou’s mother as a harridan to keeping watch on each version of the script to make sure the screenwriters were not making up facts; and the roots of Gehrig’s iconic “luckiest man” speech on July 4, 1939, just a few weeks after being diagnosed with ALS.











When: Thu., May. 24, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $29
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Richard Sandomir and Marty Appel — authors, baseball experts and friends for over 25 years — discuss the making of the classic film The Pride of the Yankees, the subject of Sandomir’s latest book.

Hear how Sam Goldwyn’s insisted that the movie be a romance about a heroic man who dies young from a mysterious disease; about Gary Cooper’s need to learn to play baseball and convert from a righthander to a lefthander, like Gehrig; about Eleanor Gehrig’s influence on the film, from her characterization of Lou’s mother as a harridan to keeping watch on each version of the script to make sure the screenwriters were not making up facts; and the roots of Gehrig’s iconic “luckiest man” speech on July 4, 1939, just a few weeks after being diagnosed with ALS.

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