The New York Yankees and all of baseball will celebrate Lou Gehrig Day on June 2nd., as reported by Jeff Passan, an MLB insider and ESPN reporter. He said that a large group of people affected by ALS banded together to convince teams and the leagues to honor Gehrig as they do with Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente.
Those fans who do not know who Lou Gehrig is, he was one of the greatest New York Yankee players ever to play the game. His life was cut short by ALS, later to be named Lou Gehrig Disease.