Despite this tragic ending to a brilliant career, Lou Gehrig had left an indelible mark on the game he loved to play. Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak, one of the greatest records in the history of sport, was never so much as approached until Baltimore Orioles' shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. surpassed it in 1995. The occasion generated a great deal of much-needed publicity of the illness, and was marked by the founding of a research fund in Mr. Ripken's name. Click to read Lou Gehrig's farewell speech When Lou Gehrig left baseball in 1939 because of the illness which has since been named after him, his number 4 was retired by the New York Yankees and that started the tradition of retiring numbers. Riverdale, New York ALS Awareness Ribbons Laurel Pieper of New York, who's brother has ALS, and Dianne Morford of California, who was diagnosed with ALS in September of 1996 came up with the wonderful idea of designating the Navy Pinstripe as an Awareness Ribbon for Lou Gehrig's Disease.
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