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World Live   Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Columnist Tuesday,
April 5, 2005; 3:00 PM  "On June 2, 1941, just days short of his
38th birthday, Henry Louis Gehrig died at his house in the
pleasant New York City neighborhood of Riverdale. The disease
that killed him, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was almost
entirely unknown at the time, to the extent, Jonathan Eig
writes, that "many doctors in the United States had never heard
of ALS." Gehrig, the great first baseman of the New York Yankees
-- indeed, commonly conceded to have been the greatest first
baseman in baseball history -- changed all that. In the years
after his death, ALS became near-universally known as Lou
Gehrig's disease, as it is to this day; for all the advances
medical science has made in the six decades since Gehrig's
death, 'his' disease still has no known cure. " -- Luckiest Man
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