The Pride of the Yankees 1942
The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
Stars: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Release Date: 15 July 1942 (New York City, New York)
Runtime: 2 hours 8 minutes
Color: Black and White
Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
Lou Gehrig
Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left • Throws: Left
6-0, 200lb (183cm, 90kg)
Born: June 19, 1903 in New York, NY us
Died: June 2, 1941
Buried: Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
Gehrig didn't always bat 4th. Wednesday, September 7, 2011
In 1929 the Yankees pioneered the regular wearing of numbers on baseball uniforms. Numbers were assigned by position in the batting order. In 1927 Lou Gehrig for the first time in his career had batted 4th in every game. Babe Ruth batted 3rd in every game...
For the 1929 season they were assigned their famous numbers: Ruth 3, Gehrig 4. The Yankees must have assumed that those numbers would represent their positions in the batting order. However, that plan changed quickly. In 1929 Lou Gehrig started the lowest percentage of his games batting 4th in his career and his highest percentage batting 3rd. Gehrig also had his second highest percentage batting 6th (14% in 1925)...
In 1929 manager Miller Huggins moved Gehrig in the Yankee batting order for the most basic of reasons: he wasn't hitting enough...
Miller Huggins died September 25, 1929 in New York, NY. He was 51...
When he took over as manager in 1931 Joe McCarthy batted Gehrig 4th almost exclusively from 1931 through 1937. In 1936 Joe DiMaggio had batted 3rd in all 138 games he played and in 1937 DiMaggio batted 3rd in 144 starts and 4th in 6. In 1938 DiMaggio batted 4th in 116 games and 3rd in 29. In 1938 Gehrig batted 4th in only 41 (26%) games and 5th in 103 (66%) games. The young slugger DiMaggio had supplanted Gehrig.
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May 3, 1939
Gehrig Voluntarily Ends Streak at 2,130 Straight Games
By JAMES P. DAWSON
Special to The New York Times
Detroit, May 2.--Lou Gehrig's matchless record of uninterrupted play in American League championship games, stretched over fifteen years and through 2,130 straight contests, came to an end today...
... took himself out of action before the Yanks marched on Briggs Stadium for their first game against the Tigers this year.
With the consent of Manager Joe McCarthy, Gehrig removed himself because he, better than anybody else, perhaps, recognized his competitive decline and was frankly aware of the fact he was doing the Yankees no good defensively or on the attack. He last played Sunday in New York against the Senators...
When Gehrig performed his duties as Yankee captain today, appearing at the plate to give the batting order, announcement was made through the amplifiers of his voluntary withdrawal and it was suggested he get "a big hand." A deafening cheer resounded as Lou walked to the dugout, doffed his cap and disappeared in a corner of the bench.
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| 1 | Frankie Crosetti | SS |
| 2 | Red Rolfe | 3B |
| 3 | Tommy Henrich | CF |
| 4 | Bill Dickey | C |
| 5 | Charlie Keller | LF |
| 6 | George Selkirk | RF |
| 7 | Joe Gordon | 2B |
| 8 | Babe Dahlgren | 1B |
| 9 | Red Ruffing | P |
The effect was achieved, he said, through trickery. Cooper would hit, catch and throw right-handed, but the film would be reversed to make it look as if he were a left-hander. To perpetuate the illusion, Cooper would run to third base on a hit, not first, and would station himself at third instead of first. The letters across the chest of his Yankees uniform would be sewn backward.
Everything, Povich said, “worked out beautifully.”
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