And re the Widow Gehrig: "The Pride of the Yankees" is a wonderful film, and probably the greatest baseball movie ever. But they took a lot of liberties. For instance, in the film Lou's mother and wife came to care for each other. In reality they hated each other's guts. They were tied up in lawsuits with one another until the day Gehrig's mother died.
One of the biggest was that Lou Gehrig was such a prince and so much a goody-two-shoes. In reality he and Babe Ruth had been estranged due to a fight over a woman. They had started to become somewhat friendly again at the end.
Very true. Look at old films of Ruth crossing the plate after a homerun. Gehrig is usually coming to the plate to bat, but the two seldom even looked at each other, let alone exchange a handshake. Gehrig also hated Ruth's lifestyle.
And a generation before that the celebrated Cub double play combination of Tinker and Evers hated each other.
