Wrigley Field was not yet Wrigley Field on June 26, 1920, the day Lou Gehrig stood awestruck within the 18,000- seat major-league ballpark. Cubs Park it was called, home of the National League’s Chicago Cubs. No matter the name, surely 17-year-old Lou must have wondered how he had come so far, so soon. At almost six feet tall and 180 pounds, Lou, a senior, was here with his teammates from New York City’s High School of Commerce to play against Chicago’s Lane Tech High School. The nation’s unofficial inter-city high school baseball championship was on the line. Just one game would be held
