As you get interested in major league baseball this summer, give a thought to the late great Lou Gehrig, a home-run hitter with the Yankees who played a consecutive streak of 2,130 games until a killer disease struck him out.
Lou Gehrig's Disease, also known as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), is coined for the baseball player who in 1938 fell below the .300 batting average for the first time in 13 years and it was clear that something was wrong.
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