The Pride of the Yankees, a 1942 biopic about the life, career, and legacy of Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper), has its fair share of emotional moments, like the scene where the former Yankee great ...

Spaun calls those motivational dialogues, Schriber’s “Lou Holtz talks,” coined after the former football coach with whom Schriber has traded wisdom. “He once told me, either you give your guys a hug, ...