About this episode

The episode discusses the lack of baseball in a movie featuring Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig and includes listener mail.

Happy Opening Day! It’s Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig, in our first baseball episode. And yes, it’s all LTS inside baseball this week. We complain about the lack of actual baseball in this movie, suggest other movies with more baseball and go on a complete tangent halfway through, that no one would let me edit out. But first, listener mail!...

Topics covered

• baseball
• movies
• listener mail

Keywords

• Gary Cooper
• Lou Gehrig
• baseball movies

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