In honor of the Yankee Stadium's final season, this year's MLB all-star game will take place in the Bronx on Tuesday. To remember some of baseball's most interesting historical moments, Bwog Film Rental Analyst Brandon Hammer suggests you check out one (or two or three) of the following movies.

The Pride of the Yankees (1942):

Those who yearn for the glory days of the Bronx Bombers will find comfort in this 1942 film. Starring Gary Cooper in the lead role, The Pride of the Yankees is a beautiful biopic about Columbia's own Lou Gehrig, whose endurance to last 2,130 consecutive games (the equivalent of more than 13 baseball seasons) brought him the nickname the "Iron Horse." Cooper's performance is powerful; he captures the essence of a man who was known for his kindness and humility, a man who, though his life and career were cut short by a terrible disease, considered himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." The film also features and intriguing performance by Babe Ruth as himself, as well as a reenactment of Gehrig's famous speech of July 4, 1939.

Today is final opening day at Yankee Stadium, as the team will be moving to a new stadium across the street in 2009. The Yankees will be playing against the Toronto Blue Jays starting at 1:05 PM. Reggie Jackson will be throwing the first pitch, and there will be all kinds of opening/closing ceremonies.

If you want to play hooky (and you don't mind the rain), you still have a few hours to get to what will probably be a very crowded game. Bring a raincoat and a tolerance of false nostalgia.

Bwog salutes Israelites and Yankees today as opening days for tribe and team alike kick off. For the Jews, it's the first night of Passover, the celebration of the Israelites' escape from Pharaonic tyranny. For the Yankees and their fans, it was opening day, with a 9-5 victory over Tampa Bay; a good first step on the Yankees' road to redemption after years of high hopes and higher salaries have yielded nothing but towering pyramids of championship disappointment.

Bernie Williams, sadly, has looked upon the promised land but cannot enter; he rejected a non-roster invitation back to the Yankees when his contract expired last year. But batting mainstays Jorge Posada and Jason Giambi each contributed with the first home run of the season and three runs batted in respectively, while shlimazel-of-late Alex Rodriguez - recently in the media for his alleged tsuris with Derek Jeter - managed a home run as well. With the Devil Rays ahead by two runs in the sixth, Jeter hit a bases-loaded single to tie the game; Bobby Abreu weighed in with an RBI single in the eighth, and Rodriguez's long-awaited homer brought in two more runs to put the Yankees well in the lead.