2023-24 LLL Impact Report - Flipbook - Seite 24
2023-2024
MLB ALS
AWARENESS
As baseball season winds down, we look
back on our ALS awareness events in
Major League Baseball in the fall of 2023
through June of 2024.
In 2021, MLB announced it would celebrate Lou
Gehrig Day league-wide annually on June 2. The
date was selected to honor the date Lou became
the Yankees’ starting 昀椀rst baseman, thus
cementing the start of his incredible streak of
2,130 consecutive games played. It is also the
day he passed from complications of ALS in 1941.
For many impacted by ALS, Lou Gehrig Day
creates a heightened awareness of the disease
and provides hope that continued funding and
research will lead to treatments and cures. For
Live Like Lou, it’s an opportunity to join together
with our partners in the 昀椀ght against ALS
including Phi Delta Theta (Lou Gehrig’s
Fraternity!), the Permobil Foundation, Team
Hilliard Foundation, members of the ALS
community, and friends of Live Like Lou.
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