Lou Gehrig killed by baseball not Lou Gehrig's disease, study finds | Science | The Guardian: Lou Gehrig, a heroic slugger for the Yankees baseball team, was famed for brushing aside repeated fractures and batting after nearly being knocked unconscious, before giving his name to the disease that was said to have killed him.
But a new study suggests that the player may not have died of Lou Gehrig's disease, formerly known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neurone disease. Instead, it may have been the baseballs bouncing off his head that claimed his life in 1941.
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