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Baseball's best hugs

It's #NationalHugDay, and no sport has a more storied history of hugging than baseball. Here are 10 of the game's most memorable embraces:

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

As SweetSpot's David Schoenfield noted in 2011, "Babe Ruth invented the baseball hug. He had the biggest hugs of all time. Nobody hugged 'em like the Babe. He once called his own hug." But no embrace was bigger than the one the Bambino gave the Iron Horse at Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day on July 4, 1939.