If you asked fans that are new to the game of baseball who Lou Gehrig was, many would answer” “There’s a disease named after him”. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, is a hideous disease that robs its victims of their body while their mind stays sharp as a tack. It’s a particularly cruel disease in a sea of end-of-life maladies and what took Gehrig’s life.
Many younger fans may only know of Gehrig’s iron man streak of 2,130 consecutive games that was surpassed by Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr. nearly six decades later.