Major League Baseball Honors Deceased BYU Law Professor

Jamshid Askar - LDS Church News

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Michael Goldsmith lived long enough to see the New York Yankees play the first two games of the World Series during the same season they honored him in a July pregame ceremony. On Nov. 5, Game 5 of that same World Series will be played in his memory.

Mr. Goldsmith, the Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law at BYU, passed away Nov. 1 at a hospice in Albany, N.Y., as a result of respiratory failure from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — commonly known as A.L.S. or Lou Gehrig's disease. Later that day, the Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5 in Game 3 of the World Series.

Major League Baseball dedicated Game 5 of the World Series on Nov. 3 to his memory.

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