 Long-time New York Yankee star, first baseman Lou Gehrig (Wendell Corey) battles ALS with the help of his wife, and of his teammate, catcher Bill Dickey (Harry Carey Jr.) The disease cuts short Gehrig s great baseball career, and kills "The Iron Horse" within a few years. Gehrig s story was also dramatized as the movie Pride of the Yankees (1942), with Gary Cooper as Gehrig.