All language subtitles for The.Pride.of.The.Yankees.1942.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-alfaHD - ENG regular

Throw it over here, come on!

- Throw it here. Come on.
- Come on, butterfingers.

Okay, let's play ball.
Come on, now.

- Hey, Murphy.
- What do you want?

- Let me in, will you?
- Get outta here.

I got some
sweet caporal cards.

- Who you got?
- Hans Wagner.

Grover Cleveland Alexander.

Them old-timers?

- Tris Speaker, Johnny Evers.
- Has-beens.

- Christy Mathewson.
- A dime a dozen.

Who you holdin' out?

Babe Ruth.

A rookie. Come on,
let's play ball!

Come on. Three strikes
and he's out.

Put it over the plate now.
Come on.

He can't hit anything.
Come on!

- Oh, what's the matter?
- Sasha.

Yeah, mom?

Your professor's here.
Come and take.

In a minute, mom.

Not in a minute, Sasha. Now!

Oh, alright.

Hey, you. Come here.

You gonna let me take
his place, Murph?

- Gimme the cards.
- Sure, Murph.

- Can I keep Babe Ruth?
- Keep him.

- Gee, thanks, Murph.
- Okay, let's play ball.

Get off the sack.

Okay. Let's go, come on.

He's a southpaw, come on.
Over the plate, now.

Let's see a good one.

- What's your name?
- Lou Gehrig.

Well, what about it?
We can't wait here all day.

I can't do anything
without my wife.

I didn't mean to do it, mom.

I didn't know I could hit
that far.

He busted Colletti's window.

Baseball!

- How much?
- Eighteen-fifty.

I told him, mama, he should
carry glass insurance.

Mr. Colletti, let me work
it out after school.

- I'll run errands. I'll--
- No, Louie.

What we break, we pay for.

Sixteen and a quarter, leaves
two and a quarter I owe you.

- I pay you Saturday.
- Okay, Mrs. Gehrig.

- I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry, too.

Me, too, mom.

You'd better be, young Gehrig.

But, I'm telling you,
that was a mighty wallop.

I feel awful about it, mom.
Honest, I do.

I'll pay you back the money.

I promised to fix
Mrs. Reagan's dumbwaiter.

It isn't just the money, Lou.
It's the time you waste.

I'll get my working papers.
I'll quit school.

Quit school?

How can you say that?

How many times have I told you?
I want you to go to school.

And high school
and college and..

Look at your papa. Look at me.

We didn't go to school,
and what are we?

A janitor. A cook.

I want you to be somebody.

Sure, mom. Sure.

Like your uncle Otto, Louie.

He went to university.
He graduated.

Don't you see, Louie?

That's why I'm cooking
at Columbia.

So you can go there someday.

And be an engineer
like your uncle Otto.

Mom, maybe I ain't cut out
to be an engineer.

- What do you want to be?
- I want to be a..

- I don't know, mom.
- You've got to know.

In this country, you can be
anything you want to be.

Don't you want to be an engineer
like your uncle Otto?

- Don't you?
- Sure, mom. Sure.

Whatever you want me to be.

This fraternity has standards.
Just can't ignore his family.

But, he's a cinch to be
a four-letter man.

And his mother's
the best cook at Columbia.

Somehow that doesn't add up
to Sigma Alpha Psi, in my mind.

Oh, Lou's alright, yan.

Well, I'm just trying to maintain
a certain standard.

Gold standard?

How'd you like to get
this right in the..

Hold on, hold on, hold on!

Let's put it to a vote.

All those in favor of
pledging Lou Gehrig..

- Carried.
- Go ahead.

If that's what you want,
I won't stand in your way.

Hang a pledge pin on him.

Don't expect me
to call him, brother.

I don't know why
this has to happen.

Every night before dinner.

Uh, you certainly smacked that
ball around this afternoon, Lou.

Yeah. Tough on the guys
who live in the dormitories.

Never know when you're gonna
get a baseball in your geometry.

What's your batting average now?

Well, I'll swap it
for your math grade.

Uh, hold it, Lou.

Gee, thanks.
Thanks, fellows.

This is an honor.

I-you know, I'm not
much on talking.

I just would like to
say... Thanks, fellows.

- Welcome in, Lou.
- he's a swell guy.

- Hi, mom.
- What?

Ahem, I just said hi.

Hi! The soup is getting cold.

- Mom.
- What?

Look!

- Oh, Lou, they took you in.
- Yeah, just now.

Oh, Lou, everything's going
so fine now.

First Columbia,
then a fraternity.

And the next thing,
you will be an engineer.

This is just the pledge pin.
I get the real pin before long.

And when I get it, I'm supposed
to give it to my best girl.

You still my best girl, mom?

Always.

You'll have to go
steady with me.

You can't even look
at anybody else.

Not even papa?

Mm, alright. Papa.

Well, Sam. I'm going
to build my football team.

Around a new man next fall.

A great halfback.

Somebody gunning for you, Jim?

Well, I guess it's always
open season on football coaches.

Especially to you sportswriters.

Oh, say, that's the halfback
I was telling you about.

Lou Gehrig,
a line-plunging fool.

Football? For a kid that
can hit a baseball this far?

Sam, there's a pretty stiff wind
is blowing in this direction--

It can blow him right into
the Major Leagues.

Lay off, will you?
That happened to Eddie Collins.

The greatest second baseman
we ever had at Columbia.

It spread over
the sports pages and then.

We know is he's playing
professional baseball.

Lay off of this kid,
will you, Sam?

I'm a newspaperman, Jim.
And that sure was some wallop.

Alright, if you
won't introduce me,

Then I'll just go right up
sand introduce myself.

I can't bear not meeting him.

Oh, Mr. Gehrig.

I suppose you'll think
I'm terribly fresh.

But I just couldn't stand it
another minute.

Lou, you seem to have
made a conquest.

Mile-a-minute Myra,
the all-american prom-trotter.

Miss Tinsley,
may I present Mr. Gehrig?

- How do you do?
- Oh, I do, Mr. Gehrig.

This is just wonderful.

What chance have I got against
a great athlete?

Pay no attention to me, you two.

I'll just go away somewhere
and drink myself to death.

Aren't you going to
ask me to dance?

Wouldn't you condescend to dance.

With a little miss nobody
like me?

I guess I don't dance
very well, Miss Tinsley.

Oh, you and your modesty.

Athletes do everything well.

Don't you wanna dance with me?

Would you care to dance,
Miss Tinsley?

I'd adore to.

I could just die
dancing with you.

But it seems such
a waste of time.

I want to talk to you.

I know a place we could be
all by our lonesome.

It'll be just wonderful.

You know what? I never
danced before in my life.

- Oh, now..
- I wouldn't kid you.

I'd never kid you.

I was scared stiff,
Miss Tinsley.

Myra.

Myra, would you... Would you
like to dance again?

Later.

First, I want to know
all, all about you.

Go on, tell me.

There isn't anything.

Oh, now, a great big,
famous person like you?

Well, you've even had
your name in the paper.

Tell me, do you
just adore baseball?

You see, I'm not gonna
be a ballplayer.

Mom wants me to be an engineer.

And you're gonna do
what your mother wants?

Of course.

I think that's...
That's just adorable.

An old engineer that never
gets his name in the paper.

Just 'cause your mother
wants you to.

You're wonderful.

You're the one
that's wonderful.

Now, Mr. Gehrig..

Lou.

Are you going to
remember me, Lou?

Remember you?

Maybe these will help you to.

Of course they will.

Because they're,
they're like you.

♪ Night and day time,
always play--

Hey, Myra.

Where have you been?
How about our dance?

Oh!

Excuse me, Lou.

♪ And the poor get poorer

♪ in the meantime,
in between time

♪ ain't we got fun?

Well, here he is now,
the pride of the ballroom.

- Quit kidding, will you?
- I wouldn't kid you.

I'd never kid you.

Come on, eat.

Nice work, Lou.
You're wonderful.

No, I'm not. You're the one
that's wonderful.

What are you going to be
when you, uh, you grow up, yan?

Well, I'd like to be
a great, big fireman.

Because I'm so good at it.
But the mater won't let me.

- She wants me to be a motorman.
- Hey, what is all this?

Oh, yan, even though the
big-league teams are begging you.

On their bended knees
to join them.

You will remember us,
won't you?

Why, I don't need anything
to make me remember you.

But, I'd like to have these,
because they're like you.

- Hey, Lou!
- Hey, Lou!

He was only joking, Lou.

- No, no!
- No, no! Don't.

- Lou!
- Lou!

There's a man from the Yankees
looking for you.

- Oh, more jokes, huh?
- Gehrig? My name's Blake.

Miller Huggins of the Yankees--

- Trying to be funny, too, huh?
- Hey, wait a minute.

Say, Lou.

What made you give Mr. Blake
the rush act last night?

He came up to your fraternity
house to do you a favor.

You mean that he...
That you want to--

Now, wait a minute.
Let's start over again.

This is Sam Blake
of the evening standard.

- Lou Gehrig.
- Howdy?

There's no law that says you
have to play with the Yankees.

But, it's no insult to be asked.

- You mean the New York Yankees?
- Not the Chillicothe Yankees.

Oh! Oh, thanks.

Gee, that's wonderful.

But I'm gonna be
an engineer.

Engineer.

Don't get up,
mama. I'll get it for you.

I can do it. I'm alright.

No, you're not alright.
You stay here, mama.

- What's the matter, pop?
- mom is sick.

- It's nothing.
- It's something, Lou.

- I'll get a doctor.
- never mind. He'll cost $2.

I'll get him.

We must get your wife to
the hospital immediately.

The general hospital is rather
crowded, just all that..

I'll see if I can
make arrangements.

There must be room
in one of the wards.

Mom's not going to a ward.
She's gonna have the best.

- A room in a private hospital.
- But beggars can't be choosers.

The private hospital
costs money.

And where are we going
to get it?

I know where
I can get it.

Tell the doc not to bother.
I'll make all the arrangements.

Aren't you even gonna read
what you're signing?

No, I'm in a hurry.

Well, just in case you're
interested, you're the property.

Of the New York Yankees
from now on.

Only, I think we'll have to
smooth off the rough edges.

Now, to start with,
I'm going to send you up.

To play with Hartford.

- Here you are.
- Thank you, Sam. Bye.

- Bye, Blake.
- Bye.

Try to keep your afternoons
free, will you?

- Sure, sure.
- Yeah.

Maybe he signed with
the wrong team.

He's nutty enough to play
with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

You'll never be sorry
you signed him.

Well, I don't know.

That's wonderful,
Louie. Wonderful.

But one thing
I don't understand.

They send you from
New York to Hartford.

To bring you back
to New York.

I'll never understand America.

You see, they're sending me
there for the experience I need.

- That's the way they work it.
- Uh-huh.

How you going to work it?

- Work what?
- Mama.

- Oh!
- Louie.

- How's my best girl?
- Fine, fine.

Mama, I've got to go
make a phone call.

Hey, wait a minute.
Grab a hold of that.

Well, how are they
treating you, mom?

Wonderful.

I can't get over how much
they give you here for nothing.

Why, all the city hospitals
are free, mom.

Everybody treats me
like a queen.

- Mom.
- Yes, Louie?

I want to tell you something.

- Excuse me a minute.
- Uh, wait.

It's, uh-huh,
it's nothing, really.

I'm going away, mom.
I'm going to Hartford.

- You see, mom, I'm--
- Harvard.

Harvard?
That's wonderful.

Oh, Louie, you are going
to be a great engineer.

And Harvard's engineering
school is good, huh?

But Louie, suppose she
finds out, what about me?

Protect yourself
in the clinches, pop.

What about mail?
Suppose mama writes you?

She'll write the letters,
but you mail them.

What about the money
you will be sending me?

- How will I explain that?
- Tell her you got a job.

- Job? Who, me?
- You.

Louie, wait.

- What kind of a job?
- That's up to you.

All aboard.

Politics.

- Good morning, Mrs. Gehrig.
- Good morning, Mrs. Roberts.

- You saw the papers?
- Papers?

The one says white, the other
black. I never read them.

You must be very proud
of your son.

My Lou? Of course.

But I just can't get over
how wonderful.

Everything is with my husband.

- Mr. Gehrig, you know?
- I had no idea that--

My husband told me
in the hospital.

How wonderful his job was.

I couldn't believe it.

You want to know when
he leaves for work?

When he feels like it.

When he doesn't feel like it,
he doesn't go to work at all.

Political, at $25 a week.

- Whoa, whoa.
- What is it, papa?

- What's the matter?
- Nothing, nothing.

- Then what?
- Nothing.

Oh, I couldn't wait for you
to come to the door.

It's in the paper!
I couldn't wait to tell you.

- He--
- Shut up!

This is great news!
You should be proud!

You'll tell me later.

Mr. Gehrig, this is a great day.

What is it all about?

Didn't you read in
the paper about Lou?

- Paper? Lou?
- Here it is.

Read it.

- Lou?
- Yes.

"Gehrig recalled by,
by Yankees."

- We'll talk about it later.
- We'll talk about it now.

- Mom.
- Here's Lou now.

- Hello, Lou.
- Well, congratulations.

If you don't mind, I think
there are a few things

I ought to talk over
with the folks.

Uh, we understand.

Well, how's my best girl, huh?

- I'd better go, too.
- Where? To work?

I'll be right back, Louie.

Mom?

Mom, about Hartford..

I didn't go there just because
I wanted to play baseball.

I went because
we needed the money.

You were sick, and the doctor
said you might die.

I wish I had died.

Rather than see you give up
everything we planned.

For what? To play ball.

A disgrace like that.

It's not such a disgrace
to play with the Yankees.

That's what we came
to America for.

A wonderful country where
everybody has an equal chance.

That's why you studied,
why you went to Columbia..

...So that you could
play baseball?

After all my plans for you to
follow after your uncle Otto.

Uncle Otto's dead.

Yes, and he'd turn over
in his grave.

If he knew what happened
in the family.

Mom.

People have to live
their own lives.

Nobody can live it for you.

Nobody could make a ballplayer
out of uncle Otto.

And nobody can make anything
but a ballplayer out of me.

Oh, you are
good for nothing.

All baseballers
are good for nothing.

Loafers in short pants.

Mom?

You've never been
to a ball game.

Lots of people go everyday.
Men, women, and children.

Maybe there's something
to it. Maybe it's fun.

Why don't you come out some
afternoon and watch me play.

So you can judge
for yourself, huh ma?

- What do you say?
- never, never!

You sure we came to
the right ballpark?

Yes.

And those are not the players?

They are getting
the field ready, mama.

What do they do
with the pillows?

They are not pillows.
They are bases.

- You slide into them.
- I slide into them?

Just watch, mama, hmm?

Just watch.

Hey, Ron.

I can't understand it. So many
people with nothing to do.

Score cards. Get your score cards,
folks.

You can't tell the players
without a scorecard, lady.

My own son, I can tell. The
others are none of my business.

- Is your son playing?
- Sure. Lou Gehrig.

Gehrig? Never heard of him.

- Substitute?
- No. Yankees.

Scorecards. Get your scorecards.

Hello, Babe.

- Hello, boys. How are you?
- Hey, Babe.

Was that homer
yesterday 38 or 39?

Don't know, but I'll hit 'em
and you count 'em.

- Where's Lou?
- I don't see him.

You sure we came
to the right ballpark?

What did you say
the name of this genius was?

Gehrig.
Henry Louis Gehrig.

5 will get you 10, you don't
remember any of it next year.

Henry Blotto Gehrig.

Come on,
son. Give me the ball.

Will you give me the ball?

Come on.

Gehrig.

Keep your eye on
Wally Pipp out there.

On first base.

I know you can hit,
but fielding is important, too.

Yeah.

What's the matter,
Wally? You getting weak? Hit it.

What's the matter,
Wally? Can't you see him?

Take your time,
Wally old boy. You can do it.

Strike!

- Time.
- Time.

I've been seein' double since
I was beaned the other day.

That's a tough break, Wally.
Have doc look you over.

Too bad, Wally.

Hey, Gehrig.

- Who, me?
- Yes, you.

Tanglefoot.

Never mind, that.
Get in there for Pipp.

Come on. Get a hold of one.
You can do it.

- Okay.
- Lot of pepper. Lot of pepper.

Come on, talk it up, fellows.
Let's get this over with.

Gehrig now batting for Pipp.

You started something,
Eleanor.

Didn't I?

Dreadful, isn't it?

I seem to have tied
a label on that rookie.

Tanglefoot!

Safe!

Omit flowers, please.

Are you putting
a jinx on him?

No, no Sam. But you
ought to have a nurse around.

- Are you okay?
- I'm okay.

Better get to the clubhouse,
have the doc look you.

I'm alright, Mr. Huggins.
Don't take me out now.

I've been waiting
too long to get in.

What do we have to do, kill you
to get you out of the lineup?

- Babe, we're waiting for you.
- What's tonight, Mr. Ruth?

I'll have a couple of those,
smothered with pork chops.

- Yes, sir.
- Take it easy, Babe.

And mushrooms.

- Maybe some nice fish.
- Say, that's an idea.

Ah! The Yankees.

Enjoying your stay in Chicago?

- Hello, Mr. Twitchell.
- Hello, losers.

Hello, Mr. Twitchell. Gotta
let 'em win once in a while.

Hey.

There's your friend,
the hot dog king's daughter.

Tell them to bring some
horseshoes with them.

When they come
to New York, next trip.

- You can't win with alibis.
- We weren't alibiing.

Hey. How's tanglefoot? Has he
come to yet, or can't you tell?

You gave that rookie an awful
riding out there today.

Have you made up
your mind yet, ms. Twitchell.

Yes, I think I'll have
some lamb chops and pineapple.

Hello, Mr. Blake.

Tanglefoot.

Tanglefoot.

Miss Twitchell, Mr. Gehrig.

Alright, we're even.

Well, if we're even, maybe
you'll sit down with us.

Not going to
pull it out, are you?

No, no. No.

Mr. Gehrig, I hear this was your
first game today.

And am I glad to get out
of the lumber business.

'Cause you don't know what that
means. That mean--

- I know what it means.
- What does it mean?

Picking splinters
off of your pants.

From sitting on
the bench so long.

How long do you expect to stay
off the bench, Mr. Gehrig?

I'll tell you.

I got a hunch I'm gonna be
playing for a long while.

Wally Pipp must be
awful sick.

What are you doing
with this Yankee?

- Hello, Sam.
- Hello, Mr. Twitchell.

- This is my father, Mr. Gehrig.
- How do you do?

- Yankees' new first baseman?
- Yes, sir, at last.

I like the way you stand up
to the ball, lot of power there.

I see he knows
a player on seeing one.

Yes, he stands up to
the plate fine.

And he falls down on the bats
pretty good, too, dad.

Mr. Tanglefoot.

Won't you join us,
Mr. Twitchell?

Well. Thank you.

Say, Blake.

You know a lot
about women, eh?

Yeah, sure.

What does it mean
when a girl says.

You remind her
of a newfoundland puppy?

Well, if it was an airedale,
that would be bad.

Or a police dog.

That would be fatal.

But a newfoundland puppy.

I'd see her again,
if I was you.

I think
he's got a pinochle deck.

Hey, where have you been?

Let me out of here.

Boys, where's Lou? Did he get
on the train alright?

Yeah, he got on.

Just hoping, that's all.

I've watched this game
for four hands now.

Oh-oh! You've had some
swell hats, Babe.

But this one is tops.
It is beautiful.

Yeah? Now listen, you mugs.
Lay off of this one.

If I see anyone touch it,
I'll knock his teeth in.

And I'm not kidding.

Deal me in.

Come on. Ante up.

We can look at it,
can't we, Babe?

- You know, from a distance?
- Don't try to kid me, mark.

- You busted my last one.
- Me? No.

No, not mark.

Well. Don't look too hard.

That's the fifth straw hat
I've bought this season.

And that's the last straw.

The last straw? That's a good
gag, Babe. Get the point?

What a gag.

- I'm in.
- Give me three.

Three to Babe. Coming in.

- Jack?
- two.

Go ahead, take a bite. If you're
one of us, you'll take a bite.

Take two bites.

What do you got?

Three kings.

Why, you..

The busher was hungry.

He didn't even
need cream and sugar.

Gehrig's the chump of all time.
Falling for a gag like that.

He doesn't know about gags.

What does he know about,
Mr. Bones?

- Baseball.
- he knows!

I'll tell you something.
A guy like that is a detriment.

To any sport.
He's a boob with a batting eye.

He wakes up, brushes his teeth,
hikes out to the ballpark.

Hits the ball,
hikes back to the hotel room.

Reads the funny papers,
gargles and goes to bed.

That's personality.

- The best.
- a real hero.

Let me tell you about heroes,
hank. I've covered a lot of them.

And I'm saying Gehrig
is the best of them.

No front-page scandals,
no daffy excitements.

No horn-piping
in the spotlight.

But a guy who does his job
and nothing else.

He lives for his job.
He gets a lot of fun out it.

Fifty million other people
get a lot of fun out of him.

Watching him do something
better than anybody else

ever did before.

You'd be right, Sam,
if all baseball fans.

Were as big boobs as Gehrig.

They are. The same
kind of boobs as Gehrig.

Only without a batting eye.

That's why
I'm putting my money on Gehrig.

There's a package
for you, Louie.

- I'll take it, mom.
- No, I'll open it.

Maybe I'd better pack it
just like it is.

No, no, I'll open it.

Where did you say
you played first, Louie.

Chicago.

Great town. They call me
"Tanglefoot" in Chicago.

Tanglefoot?

Yeah, only she didn't mean it,
I think.

Who?

Oh, that is the way you talk
about a city, mom.

- The city's always "she".
- Ships, too.

- What's this?, Louie?
- That's my new suit.

You never had
one like this before.

- It's what they call a tuxedo.
- Some people call it a tux.

Yeah. You wear it
when you go out at night.

To a smoker.

Louie.

Am I still your best girl?

Take care of my girl, pop.

Ball two.

Have you seen
Mr. Twitchell, lately?

- Twitchell?
- Yeah, the fellow we met.

At the rathskeller that night,
remember?

I didn't know he'd made
such an impression on you.

Strike two.

Say you wanted to find
Mr. Twitchell.

- What would you do?
- But I don't want to find

Mr. Twitchell.

Don't worry, you're bound to run
into Eleanor these days.

Eleanor?

Yeah, she'll know
where her father is.

It's really quite simple.

Ball three.

I'll bet Twitchell
misses you, too.

Dear, pardon me.
Well, Miss Twitchell.

Hello, Mr. Blake.
With us again?

Back again.
Is your father around?

One of the boys is
very anxious to see him.

- Lou, who?
- Lou Gehrig.

Oh.

Oh, yes. He's talked an awful
lot about you, your father.

He's practically talked about
nothing else.

Really?

Hey, Gehrig. Snap out of it,
will you?

Hey, tangle foot.
What's the matter?

Are you asleep?

Hey, mister.

You did it again, mister.
Here's your doll.

Would you go away?
Would you please go away?

Alright, mister,
you're next.

See if you can be
as lucky as he was.

How am I doing?

I guess that does it.
Shall we eat?

Don't you wanna
see me shoot, first?

Alright, gents,
it's only a nickel.

Well, he wins a prize. Here you
are, sir. That's how easy it is.

That little fellow
must be awful strong.

- Yeah.
- Try it again, mister.

Just to prove that wasn't
a fluke. Go on, try it.

There, now watch him.
Here he goes.

He did it before,
he'll do it again. There..

Well, he did it again.

Hey, I've never tried that.
I'll ring the bell once for you.

- How about eating?
- I'll just smack it once.

There you are, sir, you're next.
Alright, now.

He's a big fellow.
Bet he'll break the bell.

Yeah, hm.

Watch him. He looks like a
strong fella.

He might break the machine.
Watch him. Step back.

Here you are. Win a prize.
Well?

- Well, let's eat.
- Oh, why, Lou?

Aren't you gonna
ring the bell for me?

- Wouldn't you like to eat?
- I'm really not so hungry.

- Go ahead and try it.
- All the time you've been here.

You were saying
how hungry you are.

I must have waited too long,
because I'm not hungry now.

Ho! You, mister. The little lady
wants to see how strong you are.

Don't disappoint the little
lady. Come right over

step right up. Ring the bell,
win a prize.

That's all you have to do.

Don't disappoint the little
lady. There you are.

Test your strength, that's all
there is to it.

Ring the bell and win a prize.

Watch him, folks. Step right up,
a nickel and it's all.

Well, that's too bad.
Try again, mister, try again.

If at first you don't succeed,
you know.

Just as easy as
rolling off a log.

Wait a minute, mister.
Hold this. Look.

You gotta get your wrists
into it, understand?

In anything athletic,
you got to get the wrists in.

- Now, watch me, stand back.
- Watch him, folks.

Watch him, here he goes,
watch him, here he goes.

- Well, he did it again.
- See?

- Here, try it.
- That's all there is to it.

- Like this?
- Yeah, that's it.

Ring the bell and win a prize.
That's all..

He did it.

Here, beat it, brother.

- Now we eat.
- Oh, boy.

- What would you like to eat?
- Hot dogs and champagne?

Good!

♪ I'll be loving you

♪ always

♪ With a love that's true

♪ always

♪ When the things
you've planned

♪ need a helping hand

♪ I will understand, always

♪ always

♪ Days may not be fair, always

♪ That's when I'll be there

♪ always

♪ Not for just an hour

♪ Not for just a day

♪ Not for just a year

♪ But always

Well, Mr. Gehrig,
to your first world series.

Oh, don't say that, not yet.
We've got six more cities.

Waiting for us,
and anything can happen.

Did you realize, this is my last
night in Chicago this season?

And this is goodbye?

I, what a lot of 'em.

Six more to go.
Six more goodbyes.

Six more, what?

Well, you play in seven cities
when you're on the road.

You must have a girl
in every city.

A ballplayer is a lot
like a sailor, isn't he?

A girl in every port.

What's Boston's name?

I never said I had a girl
in Boston.

Haven't you?
What about Philadelphia?

St. Louis? Cleveland? Detroit?

Washington? New York?

- You forgot Chicago.
- Chicago? Who?

Aren't you my girl?

What, Lou, I don't know
what you mean by, your girl?

Your best girl,
is that what you mean?

I guess that's what I mean.
I guess I thought you were.

Whatever gave
you that idea?

I've seen you four days
in a row.

And you're out with me
here tonight.

Isn't that
what best girls do?

Is it?

I wonder, if I'm gonna
miss you.

Can't you find out
before I go?

Nope. Isn't that too bad?

Why is it like that?

I have no idea.

Seems silly,
doesn't it?

I like that tune,
don't you?

Dance with me?

Lou, if I do miss you,
I wish I knew how much

I were going to.

I wish you knew
before I left.

Shall I try?

How?

Or shall I..

Lou, where do you
go from here?

- Detroit
- alright.

Close my eyes,
and maybe it's tomorrow night.

And I'm dancing
with someone else.

Oh yeah,
I get the idea. Mm-hm.

Alright, ready?

Are you in Detroit?

Yep. I'm sitting in the lobby
of the Statler hotel.

Who am I dancing with?
Let me see. Who do I know?

Harold Chandler,
Bill Talbot

Jim Johnson,
Jack Austin,

Bill Church,
Sam Price..

- Hey, hey.
- What?

You've got a ball club
of your own

I'm tired of this game.
I don't like it.

- I'm back from Detroit.
- Ha, ha, ha, ha.

And I'm laughing again.

♪ Not for just an hour

♪ not for just a day

♪ not for just a year

♪ but always

- Alright, Babe.
- Alright, hold it, Babe.

That's it, still.

Uh, hand the ball
to the kid, now.

That's it, Babe.
Give us a big smile, Billy.

- Can you sit up a little?
- hold it.

- Oh, there you are, kid.
- now, let's have one with

your arm around the kid.

Can you look up
at Mr. Ruth, now?

- Hold it.
- that's it.

- Just one more.
- Right. Go right ahead.

Page one, on every rag
from coast to coast.

Or I go back
to the copy desk.

Alright, that's enough, boys.

And what's more, Billy,
I'm gonna hit a home run.

For you this afternoon
and what's more.

You can pick your own field,
left, center or right.

What did you say?
Center field? Okay.

Who'll be playing?

- Hey, Babe.
- Yes.

I wonder if you'd autograph
this for me?

- Oh, sure, I will.
- Oh, Mr. Ruth, would you.

Autograph mine, too, please?

Absolutely.

- Now, keep your chin up, Billy.
- Mr. Gehrig.

Will you put
your name on it, too?

Sure.

You're quite a fan,
aren't you?

I haven't missed a game
this season.

Oh, yeah.

Thanks. I like
to play baseball.

You'll play again.

Billy, you know there isn't
anything you can't do,

If you try hard enough.

- You think so?
- Why, sure.

Could you knock a home run
for me this afternoon?

Alright, but you've already
been promised one.

B-by Babe Ruth.

Could you?

Well, that's a pretty tall
order.

Okay.

Could you knock two homers?

Two homers,
in a world series?

But Mr. Gehrig, you said that
you could do anything.

If you tried hard enough.

That's what you said.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll hit two homers for you,
if you hit one for me.

Me?

You've got to promise me that
one of these days you're.

Going to get up out of this bed
and go home on your own power.

- But how?
- If you wanna do something.

Hard enough,
you can do it.

Hey, we can both do it,
can't we?

Okay.

- So long, Billy.
- So long, Mr. Gehrig.

- Lou.
- Lou.

It's been announced that all
threat of rain has disappeared.

And "The World Series"
between New York and St. Louis

will be resumed
this afternoon as scheduled.

Good afternoon
ladies and gentlemen.

This is Bill Stern, from
Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.

This is a world series
that'll make history.

Go down in history, be history.

The Babe has just stepped
up to the plate.

The Babe's gonna to try for a
home run, but it's not for the.

Crowd. I'll tell you something
the crowd doesn't know about.

This one's for a little boy
in a St. Louis Hospital.

It's an Lou from the sultan of
swat to a little crippled kid.

Will he pay it?

Ball!

There goes a home run out
in the center field bleachers.

Ruth at first base. Yankees
come out of their dugout.

A smile over the faces
of the Yankees.

Miller Huggins has a grin on
his mouth from ear to ear.

Things aren't bad enough
here in St. Louis

but the next man up
has to be Lou Gehrig.

Ruth is coming into
home plate now.

Babe Ruth is pretty good, too.

Now, Gehrig is in the batter's
box, just a second

I think we'll be all set to go..

Folks, this is a great day for
little Billy in the hospital.

Lou Gehrig has promised to hit
two home runs for him.

It's a home run for Lou Gehrig.
A home run for Gehrig.

Gehrig puts it right over the
fence. He really delivered.

The Yankees have come
out of their dugout.

Miller Huggins leading them.

What a duel. This is a batting
duel between the two kings

Ruth and Gehrig. Each
one has a home run.

But Gehrig has promised two home
runs for that kid. Can he do it?

- Here's $10 says he can't.
- Here's $10 says he can.

Ball!

Strike!

The catcher gives the signal.
Pitcher's got the ball.

Strike!

Strike two.

The ball is back to the pitcher
now he takes his time.

Strike three. Gehrig's out.

Louie didn't want
Babe Ruth to feel too bad.

It's the sixth inning.
Lou's at bat again.

Gonna try for that second home
run for Billy in the hospital.

Strike!

Take it easy, Lou.

Gehrig seems to be overanxious.
He's reaching for bad ones.

He's trying too hard for that
second home run for that kid.

That was a sucker bet. I'd hate
to take that $10 from you.

- Do you want to make it $20?
- $20 it is.

Come on Lou, hit it.

Gehrig takes his bat off
his shoulder.

He is looking at it now, maybe
he thinks it has a hole in it.

Strike three.

Oh, gosh.

Papa maybe you better call
Lou on the long distance.

And tell him to stop fooling.

Hurry, hurry! Lay down!

Safe!

Lou, take it easy!

Take it easy, don't press.
All we need is a single.

You might as well kick in
with the $20.

- The game isn't over yet.
- It's as good as over.

- You want to make it $30?
- It's a bet.

Here he is again.

Ball!

They're going to pass him.

That's dirty pool.

Last time at bat
in this world series

and if they walk him
it will fill the bases.

That's better than risking an
apple over the fence.

Let him walk you, Lou.
Let him walk you!

The count's no strikes,
three balls, two outs.

Here it comes.

If you haven't got $30, I'll
take your left leg on account.

What do you think of that one?
Two home runs in one

world series game.
He's really a man, that man.

From now on, they'll have to
spell Gehrig's name in capitals

Lou Lou Lou.

Gehrig Gehrig Gehrig.

Hey, guys, what about a
half-dozen collars?

Go to it, boys.

Mr. Gehrig.

Mr. Gehrig, telegram for you.

Hey, don't tear my clothes.

Everything all right, Lou?

What's the idea?

- You live here?
- No.

What are you doing here?

I was calling on a young lady.

At 4:00 am in the morning?

What for?

Well if you must know I was...

...Calling on the young lady
to ask her to marry me.

- I see. And who are you?
- My name is Lou Gehrig.

- Lou who?
- Gehrig.

Yea, you look
like him too.

I didn't recognize you
in the dark.

My name's O'Doole.
Glad to know you, Gehrig.

So you're gonna ask her
to marry you?

Yeah.

Knocked out a couple of homers
yesterday, didn't you?

I got a little lucky.

Hope you have
good luck today, too.

Is Twitchell at home?

- What's she done?
- Nothing... Yet.

Tell her Lou Gehrig
wants to see her.

Yes-yes, sir. Will you come in
and wait in the parlor?

Yeah. Go on in.

Thank you.

You're kinda fidgety huh?

Yeah.

Eleanor.

- What is it?
- A policeman wants to see you.

- A policeman?
- And a man called Lou Gehrig.

I guess you don't
need me anymore.

Louie should be
home almost any minute.

I don't know
what's keeping him.

Tessie, don't you
see him yet?

Not yet.

I love surprise parties.

Why didn't Lou come home on the
train with the team?

He missed the train.
He sent us a telegram.

I bet Lou is glad to be back
home after all that hotel food.

Yes.

Tonight we've stuffed breast of
veal, and tomorrow, fried eels.

Tessie, no sign yet?

Not yet.

I don't know
what's keeping him.

Papa is in there fussing
with the food again.

I gave you the instructions.

You said you would tell apfell.
You got it wrong.

You have ruined everything.

- What is it, papa?
- This fool. This dope.

It ain't my fault.
I just delivered it.

- What happened?
- Look.

They made Louie a
right-handed batter.

I didn't even know what it was.
He just told me to deliver it.

The only one in America that
don't know Louie's a southpaw.

Is our baker.

- Maybe nobody'll notice it.
- A right-hander.

- Tessie, now?
- Not yet.

What do you think
happened to the cake?

Now!

Mom, pop!

Where is everybody?

Surprise!

Oh mom, this is Ellie.
I mean, Eleanor Twitchell.

Hello, Mrs. Gehrig.

- And this is my pop.
- Lou, that was some ball game.

- This is Mrs. Johnson.
- How do you do?

Mrs. Martin,
Mrs. Larsen and Larsen.

Well, listen, folks, there's
something I've got to tell you.

Well, I guess there's only
one way to do this thing.

Ma or Mrs. Gehrig,
meet Mrs. Gehrig.

- What?
- I mean, when we get married.

Lou's done nothing but talk
about you, Mrs. Gehrig.

I'm so happy.

I got some refreshments
in the other room.

Brought you back a ball
used in the third game.

- Did you?
- It's yours.

The trouble with you mama,
you are not modern.

A young fellow
nowadays, he's engaged.

He takes his girl
back to her hotel.

It's 10 minutes to the hotel,
10 minutes back.

But it doesn't mean he gets
home in 20 minutes.

By the end of next season,
you can finish up in Chicago.

Then come back here and get
an apartment, fix it up.

Then we'll get married.

I think she's giving
us a gentle hint.

Lou, do you think
your mother likes me?

Like you? How could she
help liking you?

I was just wondering.

She ought to be jealous of you.
You're so pretty.

I'm jealous of you myself.

I guess, I was wrong.

- About what?
- Oh, nothing.

- Good night Lou.
- Good night.

You've picked the most beautiful
number in the store.

Ellie, if you are looking for a
chifforobe--

Oh, I found it mom, just what I
want. Isn't it lovely?

It don't look very practical,
and it looks second-hand, too.

It's an antique.

Louie can afford
to buy new stuff.

I'll show you.

Look at that.

Strong and practical.
It'll last a lifetime.

- Mom, I worked out a scheme.
- It was only a suggestion.

You see, the rug in the
bedroom--

The rug, you remind me.
I'll show you.

Take a look at that.

It's exactly the right size
for your living room.

Oh, I was planning on something
more a pastel shade.

It looks like, almost the
first rug we had in our place.

Only more so.

That's why
I bought it for you.

It's your wedding
present Ellie.

I asked them to bring it up
to see how it would look.

You can live with it for a bit,
then if you don't like it--

I can send it back.

I promise, you won't send it
back, not with the scarf on it.

I just want you to let me
show you how it looks.

- Will you let me, Ellie?
- Certainly.

- Huh, what's that?
- The bedroom paper, Miss.

Oh, you've made a mistake.
It's the wrong pattern.

- This is the one I selected.
- It was changed this morning.

- Who changed it?
- Isn't it beautiful?

Mom this little rose pattern
I picked out--

You and Louie wouldn't like it
if you saw it on the wall.

Lou was with me when
I picked it out. He liked it.

All men like anything.

I never gave you much advice.
First, you wouldn't take it.

Second, I've been married 35
years and I've learned 1 thing.

Well?

Can't you read between the lines
what I'm saying?

It's not anything I can say
in so many words and yet.

It's something that, if you
don't handle it right.

Don't say anything
about this to mama.

About what?

It's all right mom. It doesn't
make that much difference.

And if you don't like the
chifforobe--

I'll probably
get used to it.

You are very sweet Ellie to
admit you are wrong.

Look, the same wallpaper we had
when you were a little boy.

- What's wrong with Ellie?
- Ellie? Nothing. She just left.

- Was it about this?
- The chifforobe?

It's not what she ordered.
She wanted--

It wasn't practical.
Not even mahogany.

- The drawers were too small.
- But she liked it.

She liked this wallpaper too,
at first.

But I convinced her that pattern
was better, more practical.

She's very sensible Louie.

You are lucky to get a
girl like her.

That's right.

- Hey.
- Huh? Oh.

Ellie.

I just had a nice talk
with your mother-in-law.

- What about?
- Lots of things.

Mostly about
interior decorating.

Specially wallpaper
and chifforobes.

You know that wallpaper you
picked out for the bedroom?

I think it's wonderful.

Your mother picked out
another pattern.

I know, I saw it. It's terrible
and so is that chifforobe.

You mean, the one that
just came in?

I mean, the one that
just went out.

I told them to take it back. I'd
have nightmares looking at it.

Lou Gehrig, I think I could
learn to like you.

I hope you didn't hurt
mom's feelings.

I probably did. But she'll get
over it, she'll have to.

You can't run a baseball team
with 2 captains or a household.

With 2 bosses. There's only one
boss in this house.

So you'd better get that apron
off, and get your nose powdered.

Why?

I telephoned Sam Blake to get
the mayor over here right away.

What for?

Well I thought you wanted
to get married.

Giving the ring
and join hands.

Now therefore, I by virtue of
authority reposed in me--

Shhhh!

I pronounce--

I pronounce,
they are man and wife.

Congratulations.

The party is over. We've got to
get this house ready for living.

Put the bathtub in there.
Thank you, sir.

Mr. Blake, you better arrange a
leave of absence for Louie.

- Leave of absence? What for?
- Your wedding trip.

Atlantic city would be
a good place.

Excuse me.

I haven't missed a game since I
joined. I'm not going to now.

If he does,
I'll get a divorce.

You mean you are not going to
have a honeymoon?

Of course.
The Yankee Stadium.

We'd better go if Ellie wants to
stop to change her dress.

Holy mackerel, I'll miss
batting practice.

Pull over.

Fifty miles an hour
on a thoroughfare.

Fifty-five to be exact,
officer.

I know it's terrible but..

...It'll be terrible if we don't
get to Yankee Stadium in 15.

It'll be terrible if you miss
the start of the game.

It will be terrible if Louie
misses the start of the game.

You know he hasn't missed a game
since he joined the Yankees.

Who'd you say?

Lou Gehrig.

- Hello, Mr. Gehrig.
- Hi, officers.

- This is Mrs. Gehrig.
- How do you do?

This is our 10th wedding
anniversary.

We've been married 10 minutes.

- You just got married.
- What do you know about that?

Pardon me officer, but the game
starts in exactly 14 minutes.

Well, what are we waiting for?

Do you want to get pinched
for holding up traffic?

- Who you got there, Joe?
- Lou Gehrig.

He's late for the game.

It's Lou Gehrig, come on.

That's the way to go in here.

What you doing, Lou? Knocking
the rice off of your spikes?

Alright, pitch to me now.

That was a thank you for
marrying me.

What?

That was a thank you for
marrying me.

What?

He says that was thank you for
marrying him. We thank you too.

You're welcome.

Not so bad for a guy who nobody
was going to remember.

- One more kissing the bride.
- Okay.

Aww, that's terrific. Hold it.

What about the one where the
bride kisses the groom?

Yeah.

I never knew you were such a
hound for publicity Mr. Gehrig.

Publicity? I don't even care if
there's no film in the cameras.

Alright, here we go.

Hold it.

Okay.

A girl's got to breathe.

- The best of luck to you, Lou.
- Thanks, Babe.

You'll get a great play
on these pictures.

The day that Lou won all three
american championships.

Batting average, home runs--

He's got it wrong. This is the
day I got married.

- Come on, let's get this.
- Oh that's a good one.

You've got to forgive me honey.
I was held up.

The boss had a brainstorm.
He gabbled for two hours.

Finally I said, "look, boss,
this is Lou Gehrig's birthday."

"I'm master of ceremonies,
so good-bye."

How are you anyway?

- I suppose Lou is sore at me?
- I wouldn't know.

What's going on here?
Where is Lou?

I was hoping
he was with you.

With me? Did he say...

Well I did see him
after the game, he..

What time was that?

Well it was kinda late. You see,
we hung around for a while.

What did he say,
when he telephoned?

He didn't telephone.

Well he... He was probably
detained somewhere.

- Maybe something important.
- No doubt.

Now Ellie, don't be like that.

You don't know
how lucky you are.

Most women, when their husband's
late they gotta to worry.

They're either drunk
or run into a dame or something.

But you and Lou, all you got
to do is sit pretty and smile.

I'll bet this is the first time
he's late since he's married.

This is the fourth time, Sam.

Well that's nothing.
Four times in 10 weeks.

That's perfectly understandable.

Have you tried
calling up anywhere?

I don't have to call up.
I know where he is.

Don't talk like that.
You know Lou is true-blue.

- That's what you think.
- Don't get hysterical.

- Things like this happen all--
- I'm not hysterical.

I'm perfectly controlled. I've
just learned to face the facts.

- Well where you going?
- I'm going to get him.

- Well you can't do that.
- Yes, I can.

Ellie I tell you, you're wrong.

There's some explanation that
doesn't appear on the surface.

- You know where he is?
- Yes.

- You sure?
- Yes.

- How'd you find out?
- I caught him.

I don't believe it.
I can't believe it.

You got to go back. You can't
walk in on him like this.

You can't make a scandal. Think
about fans and they will feel.

I can't, I'm too selfish.

It almost kills my faith
in human nature.

Lou Gehrig.

A guy with a wife like you.
Oh pal or no pal

I'm going to take a baseball bat
and bust his skull wide open.

I'm gonna make him wish
he was never born.

I'm gonna hound that guy
for the rest of his life.

Strike three. You're out.

Well, of all the dirty,
low-down tricks.

You almost made me
have a nervous breakdown.

- What's the score, Lou?
- 23 to 22, end of the ninth.

Three men on bases.

He'll be right along now.

Don't talk to me, you Borgia.

Dad was right.

He knew a ballplayer
when he saw one.

When you said that, the Chicago
rathskeller jumped in my lap.

That wasn't yesterday,
was it, tanglefoot?

No.

I sure didn't know what I was
walking into that day.

Mr. Gehrig, meet
Miss Twitchell.

And I left my
little world behind me.

Your world?
What do you mean?

Baseball life is so different.
Sort of a world all by itself.

You play it in the spring,
summer, and fall.

And talk about it
in the winter.

You really eat, drink,
and sleep it.

Yes, you have had a dish of it.

Here it is, spring again.

Some spring.

Spring for a ballplayer.
Florida next week again.

Look, how's this?

Suppose..

These training trips
must be dull for you.

How about... You passing up
Florida this spring?

You know, take a little vacation
for yourself.

Alright, Lou.

Been a long time
since you've.

Palled around with the team.

Give you a little vacation, too.

We have seen
a lot of each other.

Yes, it's an idea.

Yes, it is.

Lou, you don't want to go
without me, do you?

- No.
- No.

- You don't?
- No.

Got ya. Got ya.

The winner!

You just handed me.

My next story
on a silver platter.

"How I beat my wife
by Lou Gehrig."

Nix.

- It's a Piparoo.
- Over my dead body.

- It'll kill 'em.
- Lay off our private life.

- Then, what'll I write about?
- About half a column.

Say, if I was in middle
of the Sahara desert.

Dying of thirst,
you'd bring me vinegar.

I'll see you
at the ballpark.

Hey.

That's dirty pool.

Lou, why didn't you want Sam to
write about your private life?

Because..

Because that's something that
belongs to just the two of us.

It's been a pretty good,
little old private life.

At that, hasn't it?

Even though
we never had a honeymoon?

We've never had
anything else.

Hey. What's the idea?
You want a bust in the nose?

Just trying to clean up
some of that.

Poison pen stuff of yours,
that's all.

Look at that, "Gehrig's
accidental home run yesterday."

I'm only putting down
what Babe Ruth thinks.

You don't need
paper for that.

You can write what Babe
thought on confetti.

Oh..

That was pretty brainy,
I suppose.

You are having Gehrig call Ruth
"The ex-king of swat."

That's facts.
Gehrig's writing facts.

Okay. Ruth will show you some
facts in his column tomorrow.

Well, any facts Ruth dreams up
will be topped by Lou Gehrig.

Without borrowing
your opium pipe.

Come in.

- These just came, Mrs. Gehrig.
- Oh, thank you.

Mmm. Just like the kind
mom used to try to make.

It's mom's recipe,
as if you didn't know it.

Anybody at home?

- Hello, pop.
- Hey. Hello, Ellie.

- Hey, Lou.
- hi, pop.

- Hello, Lou.
- Mom.

See you've ate breakfast?

Yes, Lou's been raving
about your flapjack recipe, mom.

Don't let him eat too many,
Ellie, he'll get fat.

What if I do?
Then I can quit baseball.

- What?
- Quit baseball?

Louie, are you crazy?

I've always
wanted to do engineering.

You know that, mom.

Engineering.

The best ballplayer in the world
should waste his time like that.

But Lou always told me
his uncle Otto--

Uncle Otto, schmotto.

Digging ditches,
that's all he ever did.

The world is full of Otto's.

But how many
Lou Gehrigs are there?

Look at him, eating flapjacks
on the most important day.

- Of his life.
- Important?

Don't tell me you have forgotten
what day this is?

My birthday? No.

Ellie, I haven't forgotten?

No. It's not my birthday,
either.

Or mom's or pop's.

And it's not our
wedding anniversary.

I'm surprised at you, Ellie.

Today is the day
Lou Gehrig is playing

his 2,000th consecutive
baseball game.

- So what?
- What?

Look at him
pretending he don't care.

I've got an idea.

What do you say
you miss today's game?

- You've gone crazy maybe.
- No, don't you see?

It's no news
when Lou's in the lineup..

...The real news
is if he misses a game.

- Man bites dog. Hmm?
- That's right.

Stop joking and come on,
get a wiggle on you.

The ballpark will be crowded..

...And the fans will
give you an automobile.

Why an automobile? Maybe
they will give him a yacht.

Sure. An automobile or a yacht,
or the Statue of Liberty.

I'd better go, Ellie.

If that's the way
you feel about it.

But I warn you, all you'll get
is a horseshoe of roses.

Don't be so cynical, Ellie.

"Good luck, Lou Gehrig,"
on a ribbon.

You don't appreciate
Lou's importance, Ellie.

They'll give him
an automobile at least.

I say a yacht.

See, you don't appreciate
my importance.

I'm going to get
an automobile--

Alright, alright, if you insist.

But you'll come home
with a horseshoe of roses!

Safe!

Why don't he bunt?
What's the matter with him?

Bunt. Three runs behind,
and you want to bunt.

The unexpected, mom.

- Get onto yourself.
- He should wait him out.

The pitcher has been
missing the corners.

Since the sixth inning.

If that's true,
why don't you tell McCarthy.

How to run his job?

Shut up, mom.

McCarthy is doing
great today.

He has pulled three boners
I know of.

And how would you like
to shut up yourself?

Say, why don't you both shut up?

Strike three. You're out!

Hmm.

What, no automobile?

No yacht?

I was lucky to get away.
Struck out three times.

Last time, in the ninth,
with the bases full.

If I had my way, darling,
I'd give you the Yankee Stadium.

But I wanted to knock a home run
for you today.

Maybe I tried too hard.

"Good luck, Lou Gehrig."
hmph. Good luck.

If they only knew what I know.

If they only realized what
lies back of those 2,000 games.

You've played.

This for the time in Chicago
you got beaned.

- This for having brown eyes.
- Hey!

That's for playing 12 innings in
St. Louis with a broken toe.

Here's for being the greatest
fan a man ever had.

That's for when
you had 103 fever.

And played a double-header.

Here's for sitting up all night
and curing me.

Here's for when you had the flu
and wouldn't quit.

Here's for not
letting me quit.

This is for all the times
you've had broken fingers.

And not told me about it.

Here's for putting up with me
all these years!

Oh!

I've won! I've won.
Fair and square, I've won.

Don't try to pretend..

What is it, Lou?

I-I must have sprained
my shoulder or something.

It felt stiff at the game.
Maybe that's why I struck out.

I'll get the liniment.

That's the one, there.

Here we go.

On the hustle. Come on, Babe.

That's the one.

Those kids don't know what to do
with their speed.

Lucky you got out of the way
so quick.

Yeah.

- Hey, move.
- come on.

Bill.

What's the matter with Lou?

You're out.

I certainly came down here
like an old ice wagon.

That should have been
a hit, easy.

Ah, they can't
all be hits.

Lou, maybe you're
trying too hard.

- You can't try too hard.
- Why don't you hit the shower.

And take the
rest of the day off?

No. I need a lot of work.

Well, the old man made it,
six times around.

It's worse than
being a golf widow..

...Waiting for your husband
to run around a ballpark.

I'm sorry to be so long.

- So, I'm slowing up, huh?
- Oh, sure.

I'll get a wheelchair
and push you around.

What an exhibition.
You call that baseball?

Gehrig booted the game.
Threw it right down the drain.

That's a
batting champion for you.

Did you see him
swing like an old lady?

They ought to give you your
money back on a game like that.

That game was just booted away.

There's support than that
in the bush leagues.

Ah, shut up.

Well, I can't pitch
and play first base, too.

That old man on first
ought ta have crutches.

To get around with.

What goes on here?

He just talked out of turn.

Save the fight
for the field, boys.

You watch,
Gehrig will come back.

He always does.

Every
ballplayer has a slump eventually

but in Gehrig's case,
it isn't just a slump.

It's obviously a breakdown.

- That's a lie.
- Yeah, a dirty lie.

No, sir, he ain't through.

I tell you,
Mr. Gehrig can't be through.

Gehrig I'll come back.
He's made of iron.

You wait and see.

Fifteen years, then
all of a sudden, he goes sour.

What's the answer?

Gehrig must be having trouble
with his teeth.

Get back. Get back.

Oh! Clobbered.

Strike two.

Strike three.

Joe.

You'd better send
someone in for me.

I... I can't make it anymore.

You sure you
want it that way?

Yup.

Dahlgren, get in there
at first.

- Good luck.
- Thanks, Lou.

Your attention, please.

Dahlgren..

...Now playing first base
for New York..

- What?
- what?

...Replacing Gehrig.

Two thousand one hundred
and thirty games.

Fourteen years.

Play ball!

Come on, get up..

Hurry up.

It's the routine,
I'm tellin' ya.

In a place like this,
they give you the X-Ray.

The cardiograph, the metabolism,
the fluoroscope, the works.

Then, they're liable
to tell you you got dandruff.

It's happened before.
I had a friend come up here--

Got any chewing gum, Sam?

Hmm.

Had a talk with the doctor
the other day.

He said he never ran up against
a better physical specimen.

Strong as an ox,
he said you were.

Had a talk with
that X-rRy guy too, boy.

What a send-off he gave ya.

Heart okay, lungs okay,
everything okay.

Lou, I'll bet you..

Here's the doc.

Well, how did I do, doctor?

I'm afraid you'll have
to give up baseball for a while.

You see, Mr. Gehrig..

Go ahead, doc.

I... I'm a man who likes to know
his batting average.

I've only made a superficial
examination of the tests.

We shall need
some new X-Rays.

Give it to me straight, doc.
Am I through with baseball?

I'm afraid so.

Any worse than that?

You heard
what the doc said, Lou.

He's got to go
over the tests again.

Is it three strikes, doc?

You want it straight?

Sure I do, straight.

It's three strikes.

Doc... I've learned one thing.

All the arguing in the world
can't change the decision.

Of the umpire.

How much time have I got?

Pardon me.

Yes?

Mrs. Gehrig is waiting.

Have her come up, please.

Doc... I don't want
Mrs. Gehrig to know, ever.

I understand.

But the newspapers--

Sam here can
take care of that.

- Can't you, Sam?
- Sure. Sure, I will.

Leave it to me. I'll-I'll
cook up something to cover..

Hi, Ellie.

Well, darling,
the verdict's in.

I'm not such a bad ballplayer.

I've really got something,
haven't I, doc?

What is it?

Well, I'd be cured by the time
I could learn to pronounce it.

Can you pronounce it, doctor?

We really haven't concluded
all our tests, Mrs. Gehrig.

Excuse me.

Yes?

X-Ray room is ready, doctor.

Thank you.

Just one more picture,
Mr. Gehrig.

Just one more
for the record, eh, doc?

Right back, Ellie.

Ellie, you'll never get all the
pictures they've taken of Lou.

Into that scrapbook.

Why, you'd think
he was a glamour boy.

What did
the doctor tell Lou?

Eh, nothing. Nothing at all.

Some little thing
with a long name.

Some kind of an "it is,"
I don't know.

He'll have to lay off
for a while. So what?

He'll be back next season,
or the season after.

Tell me the truth, Sam.

I am telling the truth,
Ellie, honest.

I'd swear, I'd swear
on a stack of bibles.

Eh, you heard
what the doctor said.

When is Lou going to die?

Who told you?

Nobody had to tell me.

I could read it
in your eyes.

All of you.

Oh, it's alright, Sam.

I'll never let him know I know.

Oh, he's so young, yet,
so strong..

Ladies and gentlemen.

Lemonade, peanuts,
and popcorn.

Given away free today in honor
of the great Lou Gehrig.

Bulletin. Gehrig day
not a farewell but a come-on.

A ballyhoo to get more money
out of the Yanks.

When Gehrig comes back
to the game next season.

You know what?
We're gonna knock 'em dead.

When we come back, huh?

Say, do you think we can get
$50,000 out of those tightwads?

Hmm. Not a cent under $100,000.

You'll be twice as good
after you've had a rest.

You know..

...We've never had a honeymoon.
Why shouldn't we have one now?

Sure. Better late than never.

Hey, what about
Niagara falls, huh?

Sure. Then we could go up to
northern Canada and go fishing.

You know what?
I've been thinking.

Maybe we could take a trip
around the world.

All the things we've
never had time for before.

We've all the time in the world
now, haven't we?

Yeah, we've got all the time
in the world now.

Hey, hey, you're a scream
in that moustache.

What's that?

Oh. Take it out and see.

Open it.

I had that made up of some
of the hardware I collected.

Like it, Ellie?

Oh, I adore it.

I remember when you got
every one of these medals.

Yeah, that's my favorite.

Batting championship I won
the year we were married.

Here, Ellie.

Oh, I've got a right
to cry a little.

It's such a
beautiful thing.

I wanted you to have it,
Ellie, because..

Because you've
given me so much.

You... You've been so..

You're such--

Are you making love to me,
you big ape?

You bet I am, you dope.

Gehrig day program.

Lou Gehrig.

- Stand back.
- Hello, Lou, old boy.

- When are you coming back, Lou?
- We sure miss you, Lou.

Oh, Mr. Gehrig, please.

Don't you remember me?

You knocked out two home runs
for me one afternoon.

Oh. Sure. Sure.
I remember ya.

- How are ya?
- Just great.

I've been waiting here
all afternoon because I..

I had to tell you something.

I just got in town today,
and I had to tell you.

I did what you said.

I tried hard, and,
and, I made it.

Look, I can walk.

Well, that... That's
great work, kid.

That's wonderful.

- You got a ticket for the game?
- Yes, sir, you bet.

- Well, so long.
- So long.

62,000 people have jammed the
Yankee Stadium this afternoon.

To pay tribute to a man who,
for 16 years.

Has given everything
that's in him.

Never in baseball has there been
such a spontaneous demonstration.

Of love and affection
for one man.

He's known as "Larruping Lou"
and "The Iron Horse".

No matter what,
he'll never be forgotten.

Nor will his great records.

They'll never forget his
greatest record.

His amazing feat of playing
2,130 consecutive ball games

over a period of 16 years.

Everyone is here today
to show Lou Gehrig

just what they feel
in their hearts.

To say hail and farewell
to the pride of the Yankees.

The emotion on all sides
is tremendous.

Around home plate, all the
celebrities standing there.

The beginning of the ceremony,
Joe McCarthy comes forward.

Hands Lou Gehrig a plaque.

On that plague are two words.
"don't quit".

Though anything in Gehrig's
nature were the quitter type.

Joe McCarthy puts it back down,
turns around, receives a trophy

and in turn... Gives
that trophy to Lou Gehrig.

The trophy is a trophy from
the New York Yankees

the teammates of Gehrig.
They're tryin' to tell Lou..

Here comes the mayor of New
York. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

LaGuardia addresses
a few words

perhaps telling what Gehrig
has meant to this city.

LaGuardia turns around,
extends his hand

and shakes hands
with Lou Gehrig.

Gehrig visibly impressed

with all this
demonstration of affection.

Postmaster general of
the United States, Jim Farley.

Farley walks over
and shakes Gehrig's hand.

Gehrig again trying
to manage a smile.

Now, Babe Ruth,
the sultan of swat.

Praise from him who preceded
Gehrig in the batting order.

No.3 and no.4.

Babe walks over putting his
arms around Gehrig's shoulders.

Here they are

the heart of the murderer's row
of the Yankees.

Gehrig with his eyes down.

Manager Joe McCarthy
addresses some remarks

drawing applause
from the boys.

McCarthy walks over to Gehrig

puts his hand affectionately
on his shoulder

starts leading Gehrig over to a
whole galaxy of microphones.

This whole crowd here will be
hoping he'll say a few words.

Gehrig stands in front
of these microphones

visibly impressed, all choked
up. Listen to that crowd!

I have been walking on ball
fields for 16 years..

...And I've never received
anything but..

...Kindness and encouragement..

...From you fans.

I have had the great honor..

...To have played..

...With these great veteran
ballplayers on my left..

...Murderer's row..

...Our championship team
of 1927.

I have had the further
honor of living with.

And playing with
these men on my right..

...The Bronx bombers,
the Yankees of today.

I have been given.

Fame and undeserved praise.

By the boys up there behind
the wire in the press box..

...My friends,
the sportswriters.

I have worked under the two
greatest managers of all time..

...Miller Huggins
and Joe McCarthy.

I have a mother and father..

...Who fought to
give me health..

...And a solid background
in my youth.

I have a wife..

...A companion for life..

...Who has shown me
more courage than I ever knew.

People all say that
I've had a bad break..

...But today..

Today, I consider myself..

...The luckiest man
on the face of the earth.

Play ball!