On June 2, supporters across the U.S. will recognize the legacy of legendary baseball player Lou Gehrig and his impact on ALS ...

Lou Gehrig Day Chasin' a Cure will take place next Friday, June 6. The annual tailgate and baseball game will take place at ...

During Gehrig’s youth, Christina, a first-generation German immigrant, was the family’s backbone. Father Heinrich was mostly unemployed, drank and was frequently ill. Lou was the only one of ...

As the New Yorker described the family arrangement, Mrs. Gehrig’s 11-year-old son would often help her with the dishes. The fraternity brothers dubbed young Lou “the little Heine” and ...

After stirring the Yankee Stadium crowd with his echoing, iconic words, “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” Lou Gehrig walks off into history. He was a man ...

Also there was the family of Chris Snow ... According to literature put out by Major League Baseball ahead of Lou Gehrig Day, 6,000 people are diagnosed with ALS in the United States each year.

Whether he ought to turn professional harassed the Gehrig family until it was decided. For the most part the argument was between Lou and his mother—the old man kept out of it, yet in a way it ...

after he learned he was the 27th person in his family with a genetic form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – a form of progressive muscular paralysis more widely known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Eric Dane has been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. "I have been diagnosed with ALS. I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate this next chapter ...