The second was in black and white. It was a baseball scene in which the batter had completed his swing and was following the ball into the bleachers for a home run. I thought it incongruous that such a photograph would be displayed in Germany where no one has the slightest acquaintance with baseball. I asked the therapist there if she knew who was in the photograph. She did not. I told her it was Lou Gehrig and that it was ironic that his photograph should be displayed in a rehabilitation clinic dedicated to the restoration of joints and muscles. I explained "Lou Gehrig's disease" to her and the iconic status and near reverence in which Lou Gehrig even to this day is held.
I asked several people at the clinic over time if they had any idea about the photograph and if they knew who Lou Gehrig was. None did.
That is not surprising if, as your profile suggests, you are freeping from Germany. I am afraid the name recogition would not be much better among the under-forty population in this country.