Patient Perspective: ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease
Sixty-five years after baseball legend Lou Gehrig announced his battle with ALS to the world, Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling brought the disease back to international attention. During game two of the 2004 World Series, Schilling, pitching with an injured ankle, wrote "K ALS," meaning strikeout ALS, on his shoe, just below his blood-stained sock. Photographers looking to capture images of an athlete persevering through pain instead told the story of a man fighting for the 30,000 Americans living with ALS.
Curt Schilling is the pitcher for the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. He and his wife, Shonda, became involved in the fight against ALS after meeting Dick Bergeron, an ALS patient, in 1992.
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