The correct medical name for this disease is a typical medical name that is hard to pronounse and spell at least for some of us . Lou gehrig was the first famous person to be diagnosed with this disease . He was more than famous eventhough he was 36 and at the twilight of his career. This would have been in the late 1930's ,Babe Ruth was no longer around to steal his thunder and he was playing in NYC for the yankees when baseball then .ON top of all that he made a great farewill soeach although he was not a man of words,"To-today I-fell like-like the luckmest man alive"!
