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	Gift Planning - The ALS Association
		Among ALSA’s most valued supporters, members of The Lou Gehrig Legacy Society have determined that their legacy will be one of hope – hope that a cure for ALS will be found and that those living with ALS across the country will have quick and easy access to vital patient services.
		On behalf of the 30,000 Americans living with ALS, it is our privilege to invite you to become a member of The Lou Gehrig Legacy Society, helping to ensure that ALS does not compromise the lives of future generations.
		Members of The Lou Gehrig Legacy Society are given an opportunity to publicly honor or memorialize a loved one in published lists.
	www.alsa.planyourlegacy.org /society.php (728 words)

	Education World ® - Books in Education: Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man
		Gehrig died in 1941 at the age of 37 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system.
		Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man is written by David A. Adler and illustrated by Terry Widener.
		Lou "The Iron Horse" Gehrig "Frank Graham of the New York Sun memorialized Lou Gehrig's first appearance in Yankee Stadium.
	www.education-world.com /a_books/books041.shtml (1325 words)

	Lou Gehrig - MSN Encarta
		Lou Gehrig (1903-1941), American professional baseball player, also known as the Iron Horse because he established a record for the number of consecutive games played by a professional baseball player, appearing in 2130 games in succession from 1925 to 1939.
		Gehrig was voted the league's most valuable player (MVP) in 1927 and 1936, and he retired with a lifetime batting average of.340 and a total of 493 home runs.
		Gehrig was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame later that year, and in 1940 he was appointed a commissioner on the New York State Parole Board.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554654/Gehrig_Lou.html (301 words)

	Lou Gehrig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lou Gehrig was born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig in New York City, New York, the son of German immigrants Heinrich Gehrig and Christina Fack.
		Gehrig finally surpassed Ruth in 1934, when Ruth was all but finished as a player, a year he also won the Triple Crown, and at least Gehrig had some gloating rights over Ruth in that category as Ruth never won the Triple Crown.
		Gehrig even went so far as to deny interviews to reporters he knew cheated on their wives, believing that any man who was unfaithful to his wife was beneath contempt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lou_Gehrig (5871 words)

	Baseball Historian - Lou Gehrig
		Lou Gehrig's legendary accomplishments on the baseball diamond include a.340 lifetime batting average, the 15th highest in baseball history.
		Gehrig is one of only ten players with more with than 100 extra base hits in a single season, and only he and Chuck Klein did it in two different years.
		Lou Gehrig was a compulsive worker with a record of 2,130 straight games played, and he proudly played his whole career with the New York Yankees.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/page13578.htm (520 words)

	Lou Gehrig Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When both mother (double pneumonia) and father (epilepsy) became ill just as Gehrig was deciding whether to sign with the Yankees or stay at Columbia and graduate, he chose the Yankees and used most of his signing bonus to pay off their enormous medical bills.
		Gehrig had just played his 2,130th consecutive major league game.
		Mercer told the crowd that Gehrig was too moved to speak himself, and Gehrig began to leave the field with McCarthy.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Lou_Gehrig (5853 words)

	Lou Gehrig Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lou Gehrig had also become increasingly clumsy and weak, and would sometimes fall down in the locker room and on the field for no apparent reason.
		Lou Gehrig stayed at Mayo Clinic for the next six days, and on June 19, Gehrig's 36th birthday, the diagnosis was confirmed.
		Gehrig was visibly shaken as he stepped away from the microphone, and wiped the tears away from his face with his handkerchief.
	www.the-planets.com /star-biography/Lou_Gehrig_Biography.htm (2525 words)

	Lou Gehrig - The Unofficial Website of the New York Yankees
		Gehrig won the Triple Crown in 1934, with a.363 average, 49 homers, and 165 RBIs, and was chosen Most Valuable player in both 1927 and 1936.
		Gehrig's fourth homer was to left field, and only a great catch by Al Simmons kept Gehrig from hitting his fifth homer of the day.
		Gehrig was elected to the Hall of Fame that December.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/yankeeswebpage/gehrig.html (1907 words)

	German-American Lou Gehrig
		Gehrig was known as the Iron Horse because he established a record for the number of consecutive games played by a professional baseball player, appearing in 2130 consecutive games from 1925 to 1939.
		Lou Gehrig was stricken with the spinal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and was forced to retire from baseball early in the 1939 season.
		Gehrig was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939 and died from ALS in 1941.
	www.serve.com /shea/germusa/lgehrig.htm (1987 words)

	Lou Gehrig -- Great career had tragic ending
		Gehrig pinch hit for the New York Yankees on June 1, 1925, and, on the next day, stepped in to start first base for Wally Pipp who was out with a headache.
		Gehrig was knocked unconscious by a pitch from Earl Whitehill.
		The New York Yankees honored Lou Gehrig on April 19, 1949, by unveiling a granite monument to Babe Ruth and plaques honoring Lou Gehrig and Miller Huggins in centerfield.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/g/gehrig_lou.html (1627 words)

	THE LOU GEHRIG CONNECTION
		Gehrig is one of only seven players with more than 100 extra-base hits in one season, and only he and Klein accomplished the feat twice.
		Gehrig's fourth homer was to left field, and only a great catch by Al Simmons kept Gehrig from hitting his fifth homer of the day.
		Gehrig was elected to the Hall of Fame that December.
	www.alsindependence.com /The_Lou_Gehrig_Connection.htm (1667 words)

	Lou Gehrig \| The BASEBALL Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lou Gehrig was the greatest player who was rarely considered the best player on his team.
		Lou Gehrig was a modest man. In contrast to Babe Ruth, Gehrig was painfully shy and reserved.
		Gehrig was said to be quick, but for whatever reason he stole bases at a poor clip.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/gehriglou (2383 words)

	Lou Gehrig: White House Dream Team
		Lou, short for Henris Louis Gehrig, was born in New York City, New York, in a section of Manhattan called Yorkville.
		Lou's health, however had been deteriorating because of a spinal disease called "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis." At the time of his retirement on May 2, 1939, Lou held a record of 2,130 consecutive games since June 1, 1925.
		Lou died on June 2, 1941, and today the disease that took his life is known today as Lou Gehrig's disease.
	www.whitehouse.gov /kids/dreamteam/lougehrig.html (589 words)

	Lou Gehrig - Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) is a progressive disorder of the nervous system which causes degeneration in both upper and lower motor neurons and results in muscle weakness.
		Gehrig was a powerful contributing force to a Yankee dynasty that won nine American League pennants and eight World Series during his 15 year career.
		Gehrig was a hardrunning football fullback as a sophomore at Columbia in 1922
	www.voiceforjoanie.org /louGehrigTimeline.html (792 words)

	New York Yankees : History : Remembering Gehrig
		Gehrig first appeared with the Bronx Bombers late in the 1923 season, at a time when Babe Ruth and America were roaring.
		In his 1990 biography, "Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig In His Time," Ray Robinson called them the "odd couple." He wrote that "there was too much difference in temperament and character for a firm bond of friendship to have formed." But there certainly was mutual respect, and right from the start.
		Gehrig is generally considered one of the 10 best Major Leaguers of all-time, and it is fascinating to wonder what might have happened had a disease not stolen the rest of his career.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/nyy/history/gehrig.jsp (1967 words)

	Lou Gehrig's disease
		Lou Gehrig's disease, usually called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a chronic and progressive neurological disease that is often fatal.
		Lou Gehrig's disease affects both upper and lower motor neurons, causing them to degenerate and die.
		Three quarters of Lou Gehrig's disease are limb onset and the person has trouble walking, or will notice problems in balance, tripping or falling.
	www.alsforums.com /lou-gehrigs-disease.php (281 words)

	Lou Gehrig's Disease and Glyconutrients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lou Gehrig's disease, otherwise known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is a disorder that affects the function of nerves and muscles.
		MND is also known as Maladie de Charcot and in the US it is often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, after the famous baseball player who died of the disease.
		Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease," is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
	www.wellnesscarepro.com /lou-gehrigs.html (1633 words)

	Lou Gehrig
		Henry Lewis (Lou or Iron Horse) Gehrig the son of German immigrants, was the only one of four children to survive childhood.
		Gehrig returned to collegiate sports to play fullback during Columbia's 1922 football season, and then pitched and played first for the Columbia Nine in 1923.
		Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak, one of the greatest records in the history of sport, was never so much as approached until Baltimore Orioles' shortstop Cal Ripken Jr.
	www.focusonals.com /lougehrig.htm (593 words)

	ESPN.com: Gehrig legacy one of irony
		It was July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium, a little more than two months after he played his final game, less than a month after he had learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
		It is ironic that it took the prospect of death to push Gehrig from the shadows.
		On Dec. 8, 1939, Gehrig, who had remained with the Yankees as the team captain, was elected to the Hall of Fame after the Baseball Writers Association of America waived the five-year waiting period.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014204.html (1268 words)

	The American Experience \| Joe DiMaggio: A Hero's Life \| People & Events \| Lou Gehrig
		Gehrig was the son of poor German immigrants whose ambition was to see their son attend college.
		Lou went to Columbia University for two years on a football scholarship, but his education was cut short when his father became ill. Gehrig left college to sign with the Yankees to pay for his father’s medical bills.
		Gehrig didn’t come out of the line-up for 14 years, racking up what was long believed to be an insurmountable record of 2,130 straight games played (a record finally broken in 1995 by the Baltimore Oriole’s Cal Ripken Jr.).
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/dimaggio/peopleevents/pande04.html (507 words)

	Lou Gehrig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It gives me lots of room to spread myself." The year Ruth retired (1935), Gehrig began a three-year streak of leading the league in walks, a good measure of the respect pitchers still had for him when he was in his mid-thirties.
		Gehrig had 200 or more hits in eight seasons, never hit below.300 from 1926 to 1937, and had a career average of.340.
		On Lou Gehrig Day at Yankee Stadium, the stoical slugger told a packed house, "I may have been given a bad break, but with all this I have a lotto live for.
	www.fiu.edu /~otweb/Gehrig.html (405 words)

	Living Legacies
		Gehrig’s words of hope, grace, and humility on July 4, 1939, as he bid farewell to baseball and his team, the New York Yankees, have often been referred to without sarcasm as the game’s Gettysburg Address.
		Gehrig accumulated 493 home runs, had a lifetime batting average of.340 (only a few points behind the Babe) and batted in 175, 174, and 184 runs in the years between 1926 and 1930.
		Gehrig was sworn in to his new civic role on January 2, 1940, for a ten-year term, with the mayor on hand to give the inductee his official blessing.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2001/Gehrig.html (3501 words)

	Dr. Koop - Lou Gehrig's Disease- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
		Lou Gehrig's Disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and usually fatal disorder that attacks the nerves and muscles.
		It is sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famed New York Yankee slugger whose death in 1941 was caused by this disorder.
		You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and you should always consult your physician before starting a fitness regimen.
	www.drkoop.com /encyclopedia/93/53/Lou_Gehrigs_Disease.html (783 words)

	Lou Gehrig's Disease- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
		Lou Gehrig's Disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and usually fatal disorder that attacks the nerves and muscles.
		It is sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famed New York Yankee slugger whose death in 1941 was caused by this disorder.
		You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and you should always consult your physician before starting a fitness regimen.
	www.drdean.healthcentral.com /encyclopedia/408/53/Lou_Gehrigs_Disease.html (772 words)

	Lou Gehrig Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Lou Gehrig was born on Friday, June 19, 1903, in New York, New York.
		Gehrig was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on June 15, 1923, with the New York Yankees.
		The "luckiest man on the face of the earth" died at age 37 (Lou Gehrig, 1903-1941).
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=gehrilo01 (283 words)

	Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)
		Lou Gehrig's disease is a disorder that's also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (say: ah-my-uh-tro-fik lah-tuh-rul skluh-ro-sis), or ALS.
		ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease after Lou Gehrig, a hall-of-fame baseball player for the New York Yankees who was diagnosed with ALS in the 1930s.
		Living with Lou Gehrig's disease is physically difficult, but it is reassuring to know that the mind is not affected.
	www.kidshealth.org /kid/grownup/conditions/als.html (1295 words)

	Lou Gehrig \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Lou Gehrig was the greatest first baseman ever and a key component in the Yankee legend.
		Gehrig and Rocky Colavito are the only AL players to hit four homers in a nine-inning game, and Gehrig hit for the cycle twice; Ruth never did.
		Gehrig and Red Rolfe clout homers in the 5th to chase Mel Harder, but the Indians answer with three doubles by Earl Averill and a homer by Hal Trosky.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/G/Gehrig_Lou.stm (9678 words)

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