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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build ...

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The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

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Lou Gehrig

Baseball player

Born: 1903-06-19

Died: 1941-06-02

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19 1903 – June 2 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Major League Baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. He set several Major League and American League records and was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association. He played for the New York Yankees until his career was cut short by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now commonly referred to in the United States as Lou Gehrig's Disease.More