All real baseball fans — particularly the fans, and the opponents, of the New York Yankees — remember Lou Gehrig.
That’s because he was one of the greatest players of years gone by.
But in 1941, Gehrig tragically died at the age of just 37 from an illness that since has carried the name “Lou Gehrig’s disease.”
The medical name of his affliction is “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,” or ALS for short.
ALS has caused a great deal of suffering over the years, and today, about 30,000 Americans have it. There is no treatment.