In the United States the most common terms used are ALS ( both specifically for ALS and as a blanket term ) or " Lou Gehrig's disease ".

The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

Based on a single, limited study involving twenty people, some people have labeled Cadillac as one of three " hot spots " for Lou Gehrig's Disease in the US.

) Only left-handed batter Lou Gehrig's 184 RBI in 1931 surpasses Greenberg in the American League record books.

Positronium atoms, synthetic penicillin, synthetic self-replicating molecules, and the genetic bases for Lou Gehrig's disease and Huntington's disease were first discovered at MIT.

He played a patient with Lou Gehrig's Disease injured in a car accident who asks the doctors at Three Rivers hospital to pull him off life support so his organs can be donated.

) He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS, or " Lou Gehrig's disease ") later that year.

* They are eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance and have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease ).

The film is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before the film's release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later became known to the lay public as " Lou Gehrig's disease ".

Gehrig's mother, who still hasn't accepted the fact that her son will not be an engineer, does not take the news of his pending marriage well ; but Lou finally stands up to her and marries Eleanor.

Walter Clement Pipp ( February 17, 1893 – January 11, 1965 ) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball, now best remembered as the man who lost his starting role to Lou Gehrig at the beginning of Gehrig's streak of 2, 130 consecutive games.

Mattingly did just as well in 1986, leading the league with 238 hits, 53 doubles ( to date, both are single-season franchise records, having broken Earle Combs ' 231 and Lou Gehrig's 52 respectively ; both had been set in 1927 ), 388 total bases, and a. 573 slugging percentage.

In addition to her TV special, Raquel !, her television appearances include the TV movies The Legend of Walks Far Woman and Right to Die in which she turned in a stirring performance as a woman stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, and in the PBS series American Family, about a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles.

A 19-time All-Star and two-time American League ( AL ) Most Valuable Player ( MVP ), Ripken is perhaps best known for breaking Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played, a record that had stood for 56 years and many deemed unbreakable.

In 1977 he was awarded the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award as the player who best exemplefied Lou Gehrig's ability and character.

ALS is commonly called " Lou Gehrig's disease.

In March 2010, the PBS FRONTLINE TV program in the United States showed a documentary called " The Suicide Tourist " which told the story of Professor Craig Ewert, his family, and Dignitas, and their decision to commit assisted suicide using Sodium Pentobarbital in Switzerland after he was diagnosed and suffering with ALS ( Lou Gehrig's Disease ).

Instead, the show replayed the highly acclaimed episode of Nightline with Koppel's 1995 interviews with retired Brandeis University sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, who was dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease ).

* September 6-Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive games.

Before the support tour for the album, Jason Becker was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, which rendered him unable to perform.

The piece, which documents victims of the Holocaust, was created during a time of personal loss in Chicago's life: the death of her brother Ben, from Lou Gehrig's disease, and the death of her mother from cancer.

In his farewell speech, Lou Gehrig stated that the Giants were a team that " would give his right arm to beat, and vice versa.

** Lou Gehrig gives his last public speech, following a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ).

In keeping with the Breen as a mysterious race, the sounds of the Breen's speech were inspired by the Lou Reed album Metal Machine Music, which the postproduction sound staff were instructed to listen to when creating the electronic cackle that served as the Breen's voices.

* Carpenters for Christmas Project to Rebuild Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Tippah County, Mississippi, burned after a speech held there by Fannie Lou Hamer

New coach Lou Holtz gave an impassioned speech when the time came in 1984 to decide whether to remain at the Metrodome, and declared that " athletes want to play at the Dome.

Many anachronisms are incorporated into the film for comedic effect, such as the " Hollywood "- styled sign upon Robin Hood's arrival in England, a rental horse, Ye Olde Port-o-Privy, an " EXIT " sign appearing when Robin escapes from the castle, an impression of Winston Churchill's " We shall fight on the beaches " speech ( immediately followed by an impression of Malcolm X's " You've Been Had " speech ), a pneumatic jackhammer, a handheld semi-automatic crossbow, a remote-control portcullis, a man sounding like Lou Costello yelling " Hey, Abbot!

It was later given by another EastEnders actor Anna Wing who played Lou Beale, who mentioned her in the speech.

The highlight of Righetti's efforts as a starting pitcher occurred on the Fourth of July, 1983, when he threw a 4-0 no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox on the anniversary of Lou Gehrig's farewell speech.

" that he says in his farewell speech to the Springfield fans, is a reference to Lou Gehrig's farewell speech in the 1942 baseball film Pride of the Yankees.

Murrow's style of presentation had been influenced by a teacher of speech named Ida Lou Anderson.

At the conclusion of the first game, Lou Gehrig delivered his famous " luckiest man on the face of the earth " speech.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

In the offseason they signed Alfonso Soriano to the richest contract in Cubs history at 8 years for $ 136 million, and replaced unpopular skipper Dusty Baker with fiery veteran manager Lou Piniella.

On August 22, Lou Piniella, who had already announced his retirement at the end of the season, announced that he would leave the Cubs prematurely to take care of his sick mother.

) Thomas named the restaurant after his eight-year-old daughter Melinda Lou, whose nickname was " Wenda ", stemming from the child's inability to say her own name at a young age.

First Lady Lou Hoover defied custom and invited an African-American Republican, Oscar DePriest, a member in the House of Representatives, to dinner at the White House.

Ramone and 49 other recording artists — including Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, Lou Reed and Run DMC — collaborated on the song " Sun City ", in which they pledged they would never perform at the resort.

* 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself " The luckiest man on the face of the earth " as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.

Lou Noto was Chairman of Mobil at the time of the merger and Walter Arnheim was treasurer.

Smith was a speaker and singer at the first protests against the Iraq War organized by Lou Posner of Voter March on September 12, 2002, as U. S. President George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly.

* 8 p. m. EDT: Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, a tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, is held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks.

This was because it was required then that a batter needed 400 at bats, despite Lou Boudreau's attempt to bat Williams second in the lineup to get more at-bats.

Producer Lou Morheim originally bought the rights to Seven Samurai, with plans to have Anthony Quinn as lead ; according to Variety Brynner " got the rights away from Quinn " and brought Sturges into the project as director, based on the latter's work on Gunfight at the O. K.

* October – Mammy Lou becomes the oldest person to ever star in a film, at age 114.

Heckart was familiar to television audiences with starring roles in The Five Mrs. Buchanans, Annie McGuire, Out of the Blue, Trauma Center, Partners in Crime, Backstairs at the White House ( Emmy nomination as Eleanor Roosevelt ), and guest spots on The Fugitive, The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( two Emmy nominations as journalist Flo Meredith, a role she carried over to a guest appearance on MTM's spinoff Lou Grant ), Rhoda, Alice, Murder One, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, Cybill, The Cosby Show, and many other shows.

While attracting Connell, Cooney received a call from Lou Hausman, who worked for the Commissioner of Education ; he suggested Jon Stone, also from Captain Kangaroo, a producer who had retired to Vermont, though no more than 35 at the time.

Then, on January 13, 2006, Baez performed at the funeral of Lou Rawls, where she led Jesse Jackson, Sr., Wonder, and others in the singing of " Amazing Grace ".

In 1966 Elektra Records issued the first recording of European free improvisation by the UK group AMM, which included at the time Cornelius Cardew, Eddie Prévost, Lou Gare, Keith Rowe and Lawrence Sheaff.

The director had been thinking about this kind of a movie as early as 1981 and was inspired by his father, Lou Stone, a broker during the Great Depression at Hayden Stone.

Mantle's monument in Monument Park ( Yankee Stadium ) | Monument Park. On Mickey Mantle Day, June 8, 1969, in addition to the retirement of his uniform Number 7, Mantle was given a plaque that would hang on the center field wall at Yankee Stadium, near the monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins.

Image: Riders on Horseback, Northern Qi Dynasty. jpg | A scene of two horseback riders from a wall painting in the tomb of Lou Rui at Taiyuan, Shanxi, Northern Qi Dynasty ( 550 – 577 )

A year later, at Lou Gehrig Day at Yankee Stadium, an older Billy ( David Holt ) finds Gehrig and shows him that he has made a full recovery, inspired by his hero's example and the two-homer fulfilled promise.