The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)
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Wrigley Field (Los Angeles), which no longer exists, but was here. It was used to represent the fields of teams the Yankees played such as Comiskey Park.
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The Pride of the Yankees
The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later became known to the lay public as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
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