NEW YORK - 1930. Lou Gehrig, left, and Babe Ruth exchange laughs at the batting cage in Yankee Stadium before a game in 1930. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images)
New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig is getting the memorial honor he long ago earned.
Some ideas don’t need a full years-long gestation period to begin to make sense; instead, they simply click.
Reserving a day across Major League Baseball to honor the memory of Lou Gehrig, while bowing to all of those we’ve lost to ALS in the decades since the Iron Horse’s stunning diagnosis as well, was a home run befitting of No.