17th
The news
I just read an interesting article from The Guardian:
Lou Gehrig killed by baseball not Lou Gehrig’s disease, study finds
Well, that’s pretty interesting, right? Let’s read together:
Lou Gehrig killed by baseball not Lou Gehrig’s disease, study finds
Fascinating! The headline really grabs you, doesn’t it? There was a study, and it had a surprising but definite finding.
Player who gave his name to a type of motor neurone disease more probably died due to brain trauma
The byline. “more probably” - great, ok, I mean they probably looked at his medical records and since medical science wasn’t so advanced in the 40s they just can’t be 100% sure, but obviously the study makes a pretty good case that Lou Gehrig wasn’t killed by Motor Neuron Disease, or they would’ve used a different headline.
Gehrig, who built a heroic reputation for playing on despite injuries - he played 2,130 games over 14 years - is not named in the study.
Oh.
