DiMaggio homers as Yanks mourn loss of Gehrig

DETROIT, June 3, 1941 — The Yankees took the field at Briggs Stadium on Tuesday with heavy hearts, and for one afternoon, baseball was not the most important thing on their minds.

Just after 10 p.m. Monday night, the world learned that Yankees legend and baseball gentleman Lou Gehrig had passed away at the age of 37 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The next day, his friends and the players who had played so many games alongside the longtime first baseman went through the motions on the ballfield and the emotions in the dugout and clubhouse.

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It wasn’t surprising, then, that the Tigers beat the listless Yanks by a score of 4 to 2 in a game played on an unseasonably gloomy, windy and chilly June day, or that the proceedings took a mere one hour and 39 …

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