Lou Gehrig
No. 3PLAYED BY Gary Cooper, right
MOVIE Pride of the Yankees (1942)
POSITION First base
TEAM The New York Yankees, in what may have been the team's greatest dynastic period — they won six World Series in the 17 seasons Gehrig played.
STATS Known for his work ethic, the ''Iron Horse'' played 2,130 consecutive games, a record that lasted six decades until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. He was also a top infielder and strong slugger, hitting four home runs in one 1932 game.
ACCURACY Moderate, despite the presence of many of Gehrig's real-life teammates in the cast (most notably Babe Ruth, left). Since Cooper couldn't bat left-handed, he shot his scenes in mirror-image, wearing a reverse-lettered uniform and running to third base instead of first, and the footage was then flipped in the editing room.
MEMORABLE MOMENT After being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease, the future Hall of Famer retires, famously telling the Yankee Stadium crowd: ''Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.''
MALE KLEENEX FACTOR 10. Anyone who doesn't weep at Gehrig's farewell speech is a stone.
EW GRADE B
