Word: gehrig
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...hitting Cleveland Indian Carlos Baerga crushing two home runs in the same inning from opposite sides of the plate, and a game in 1933 (Angell was there) in which one Luke Sewell, catching for the now defunct Washington Senators, tagged out two bunched-up runners at the plate (Lou Gehrig was one of them) with a single grand, sweeping, run-cancelling gesture. Angell writes like an outfielder at the warning track, performing a running plie with outstretched glove, gracefully saving priceless wonders like these from the bleachers of oblivion...
Harvard’s confidence was boosted by a two-game sweep of Dartmouth last Sunday that clinched the Red Rolfe division by a game. Princeton, meanwhile, coasted into the ICS, winning its eighth-straight Lou Gehrig division by a three-game margin...
...just like last year, the Crimson will face the Tigers, winners of the Lou Gehrig Division, for the Ivy crown and the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The best-of-three series begins Saturday at Princeton...
...Rolfe winner will most likely face Princeton for the Ivy title, which needs only a single victory to clinch the Lou Gehrig division title...
...spinal cord. Signorini was helpless against the progressive paralysis that eventually froze every part of his body. He died six months ago at 42, leaving a wife and four children. Seemingly out of nowhere, a once tireless athlete is crushed by this cruel and mysterious illness, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease in the U.S., after the legendary baseball star struck down by ALS. The high prevalence of ALS among footballers is the latest distressing news about the health risks of being a pro athlete. Some of those issues are known, and others related to drug use, says Raffaele Guariniello...