Two gentlemen with some interesting attachments to baseball. Hermann, one of my favorite actors, passed away Wednesday at the age of 71. Frankly, I thought he was older. He played Lou Gehrig to Blythe Danner in the 1978 TV movie, A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story. I haven’t seen this one in […]
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Actor Edward Herrmann made almost as unlikely a baseball player in A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story, a 1978 made-for-TV movie as Tony Perkins did in Fear Strikes Out, but he makes an excellent narrator on Jonathan Eig’s 2005 biography of the Iron Horse. Here’s a slide show/audio excerpt from the book: […]
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