Baseball's original iron man, Lou Gehrig is best known as
Babe Ruth's most outstanding cohort in the center of the great Yankees' "Murder's Row" lineup, and for his courageous fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a disease which would afterward become popularly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease." Gehrig, among the best first basemen in baseball history, played his entire career with the Yankees. Gehrig's career spanned the peak of Ruth's prowess to the budding of
Joe DiMaggio as a superstar. Gehrig's Yankee teams won World Series in 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. Lou Gehrig was elected to the Hall Of Fame in 1939.
Dan DeLong was diagnosed in February with amytrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He first noticed muscle weakness and twitching, common early symptoms of the degenerative nerve disease, in June 2007.
Publ.Date : Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:03:42 GMTHe can't play baseball like Lou Gehrig (or do much of anything else, as he readily admits), but Jerry Springer says he feels like the luckiest man on the face of the earth. "God's truth, I don't have any talent," the host of TV's wildest daytime...
Publ.Date : Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:26:29 GMTPopular Baldwin-Wallace College music professor James Feldman died Friday. He had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease. Students and faculty members organized a benefit concert for Feldman in October to help the family defray medical expenses. The concert drew...
Publ.Date : Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:11:30 GMTA popular local priest from Mason dies after a long battle with Lou Gehrig's disease.
Publ.Date : Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:14:23 GMTNoted island artist Peggy Chun has died. She lost her battle with A.L.S., or Lou Gehrig's Disease, at the age of 62. Peggy Chun was a prolific artist, in the end using a computer that could follow her eyes in order for her to communicate and paint.
Publ.Date : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:31:27 GMT
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Hollywood legend Gary Cooper played Lou in the story of his life, "The Pride of the Yankees."
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