Lou Gehrig
This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 (part of March 2026)
category: 
Sports
clue: On the face of it, he may have seemed like the luckiest man on Earth. But his record-setting streak of consecutive games while playing for his native New York was so famously interrupted by an incurable disease that it came to be called his.
explanation: Gehrig set a number of records in his career with the New York Yankees starting in 1923, including 2130 consecutive games. That streak was broken in 1939 when he took himself out of play due to physical difficulties that were subsequently diagnosed as ALS. He retired and gave a speech calling himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth," and passed two years later. ALS is now often called Lou Gehrig's Disease. more…
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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