Trivia: In the movie, Lou Gehrig concludes his farewell speech with the famous line "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth". However, in real life, he continued after this point. The last lines of his speech were "And I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you."
Trivia: At the beginning of the cartoon, we see Donald wearing an army hat instead of his usual sailor hat. This would be repeated in the other army-themed Donald Duck cartoons.
Trivia: The opening credits on this cartoon are the artists' actual signatures.