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Who is Lou Gehrig and why is the disease named after him?
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Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is named after the famous American New York Yankees baseball player, Lou Gehrig.
Gehrig retired in 1939 due to ill-health and died in 1941 at the age of 37.