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Major League Baseball courtesy of Commissioner Bud Selig has designated July 4th, ’4♦ALS Awareness’ Day, commemorating the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig’s luckiest man speech and the MLB, ALS initiative, set to raise awareness and funding for of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

“Seventy years ago, Lou Gehrig delivered an impassioned speech that has become part of American history,” said baseball commissioner Bud Selig. “Major League Baseball is proud to devote the Fourth of July to Lou Gehrig and the disease that bears his name. We are pleased to have this opportunity to help find a cure for ALS and help those who are suffering from the disease.”

Lou Gehrig stood before the 61,808 in attendance at Yankee staduim after he had learned he had ALS and bid the game he loved so dearly, farewell. “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. … I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.”

“This has been a very difficult disease to understand,” said Dr. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, director of the ALS Center at UCSF. “But with the stem cell research, I think we’re getting much closer. We should be starting our clinical trials soon, and we’re hopeful that we won’t just be able to slow down the disease, but actually reverse it.”

With still no formidable cure, or cause for that matter ALS has caught the attention and support of the MLB after BYU law professor, Michael Goldsmith, wrote a column in Newsweek MY TURN – Batting for the Cure raising funds in hopes for an eventual cure to this debilitating disease.