Major League Baseball Honors Deceased BYU Law Professor

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.

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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