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Honoring The Great Lou Gehrig, MLB Teams Up With ALS
Major League Baseaball pays respect to one of its all-time greats this Fourth of July by helping to raise awareness for ALS, the disease that took Lou Gehrig at age 38.
Partnering with four major non-profit organizations, MLB will pay tribute to “The Iron Horse” during all games played on Saturday, July 4th. The “4♦ALS Awareness” campaign will culminate with the following words being read at the end of each game played on that day–the 70th anniversary of “Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day” at Yankee Stadium.
“For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindess and encouragement from you fans.” ~ Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939
The four organizations teaming up for the campaign are The ALS Association, Project A.L.S., Augie’s Quest, and ALS TDI.
Below is a video of the classy Gehrig giving his infamous speech to a packed Yankee Stadium in 1939.
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By: LBC on June 18th, 2009, No Comments »
American Idol Contestant Donates Proceeds of New Song to ALS and Red Cross
Michael Johns may not have won American Idol, but the season seven contestant wins big for a very cool move he recently made in the world of giving. In 2006, when the realization hit that he wouldn’t be returning to his homeland of Australia for Christmas, Johns penned a song in the middle of the night, called “Another Christmas,” about missing loved ones. Though his first post-Idol album hasn’t dropped yet (look for it in March ‘09), “Another Christmas” was released December 9th on iTunes. The crooner’s only condition for releasing it? That proceeds go to charity: 50% to Red Cross, and 50% to Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). His friendship with Access Hollywood host Nancy O’Dell sparked the idea for the ALS donation, as Nancy lost her mom to the disease earlier this year. The move is a great way to support Red Cross and especially ALS, one of those diseases which, as Terrell Suggs stated about Sickle Cell, we don’t hear very much about, and which doesn’t get nearly the funding it needs. Go to iTunes, buy it, burn it, send it!
Michael Johns with pal Nancy O'Dell of Access Hollywood
PHOTO: Lisa Rose/lisarosephoto
