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Baseball Signed by Lou Gehrig – Mayo Clinic Heritage & History

Lou Gehrig signed this ball while he was a patient at Mayo Clinic in 1939. Since his diagnosis at Mayo, ALS has been known as ā€œLou Gehrig’s disease.ā€ Bob Tierney kept the Gehrig baseball – and, along the way, got a signature from Leo Durocher as well – for 75 years.