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Major League Base­ball will begin hon­or­ing the late Hall of Fame New York Yan­kees first base­man Lou Gehrig league-wide, sim­i­lar to how they hon­or Jack­ie Robin­son and Rober­to Clemente.
Gehrig died of amy­otroph­ic lat­er­al scle­ro­sis, known as ALS, on June 2, 1941. That day, which also rep­re­sents the first game in his his­toric 2,130 con­sec­u­tive games played streak that was a record for more than 50 years will be the day the league hon­ors his lega­cy. The league will …