By Matt Singer
In honor of the start of the 2008 baseball season, Ifc.com will be paying tribute to the national pastime's long relationship with the movies every day this week by giving you everything you'd ever want to know about the odd little quasi-autobiographical ditties in which baseball players have played themselves. Peanuts and crackerjacks not included.
Rawhide (1938)
Directed by Ray Taylor
As Himself: Lou Gehrig
Game Story: Celebrated ballplayer Lou Gehrig announces he's through with the game and is moving out west to live on his sister's farm and become a cowboy. "I'm gonna wallow in peace and quiet for the rest of my life!" Gehrig vows to the incredulous reporters who come to Grand Central Station to see him off. But when he arrives at the family homestead, he discovers some hoodlums have turned the local ranchers' association into a protection racket. Gehrig teams with a local...
In honor of the start of the 2008 baseball season, Ifc.com will be paying tribute to the national pastime's long relationship with the movies every day this week by giving you everything you'd ever want to know about the odd little quasi-autobiographical ditties in which baseball players have played themselves. Peanuts and crackerjacks not included.
Rawhide (1938)
Directed by Ray Taylor
As Himself: Lou Gehrig
Game Story: Celebrated ballplayer Lou Gehrig announces he's through with the game and is moving out west to live on his sister's farm and become a cowboy. "I'm gonna wallow in peace and quiet for the rest of my life!" Gehrig vows to the incredulous reporters who come to Grand Central Station to see him off. But when he arrives at the family homestead, he discovers some hoodlums have turned the local ranchers' association into a protection racket. Gehrig teams with a local...
- 4/4/2008
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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