Just look at their album cover! Did these guys look like stoners, or what?

To a crowd of over 60,000 in Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939, the event staged that day was billed as “Lou Gehrig Retirement Day.” In fact, it was a farewell to the life of Lou Gehrig who, only three weeks earlier, had been declared “terminal” by experts at the Mayo Clinic. For the great Iron Horse, his “Retirement Day” amounted to a veritable cavalcade of awards and testimonials. The crescendo came with Lou’s acceptance of the Gehrig Team Appreciation Trophy – a stately and genuinely sincere tribute, conceived and conducted to its finish by his Yankee teammates.

Columbia University recruited Gehrig on a football scholarship. Before enrolling in 1921, Gehrig tried out for legendary New York Giants manager John McGraw, who reprimanded him for missing a ground ball at first base and sent him to the Class A Hartford team, where he played 12 games. Gehrig didn’t know that the professional play violated collegiate rules.

He was banned from Columbia sports for a year. Playing one season of baseball at scruffy South Field, he hit long home runs off the steps of the Low Library and the walls of the journalism building, while others landed on Broadway. He pitched, played first base and outfield, and hit .444. Paul Krichell, a New York Yankees scout, signed him to a contract.

Miller James Huggins was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. He managed the Cardinals (1913–1917) and New York Yankees (1918–1929), including the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League (AL) pennants and three World Series championships.

Indeed, Huggins was a “little fellow” at 5' 6", 140 lb.

This guy:

…Not the infamous, Red-baiting Senator:

Jacob Ruppert, Jr., sometimes referred to as Jake Ruppert, was an American brewer, businessman and politician. Ruppert served in the United States House of Representatives and owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, during which time he purchased Babe Ruth and built Yankee Stadium. Ruppert will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2013.

A native of New York City, Gehrig played for the Yankees until his career was cut short by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disorder now commonly known in the United States and Canada as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Just a tad hypocritical, Lester. Weren’t you friends with The Clash?

“The early stuff” refers to Lou’s work with The Velvet Underground, the influential experimental rock band from New York City.

“The new stuff” refers to the 1972 Lou Reed solo LP Transformer, which was heavily inspired by David Bowie’s glam rock. Lou even featured Bowie’s guitarist, Mick Ronson, on the album.