| A | B |
|---|
| How Lou Gehrig's ideas differed from his parents' ideas | He wanted a baseball career and they disagreed. |
| Aid for college expenses | Sports scholarships |
| How he earned money for college | He waited on tables |
| His mother's job | She was a cook for the college. |
| The team he began playing for in 1923 | New York Yankees |
| How his family sent him to spring training camp in New Orleans | They scraped together $14. |
| Lou Gehrig's nickname | Iron Horse |
| The number of years he played without missing a game | Fourteen years |
| The number of games he played | Over 2,000 |
| ALS is sometimes called this | Lou Gehrig's disease |
| How ALS affects people | They become unable to move. |
| How Lou Gehrig described himself | The luckiest man on the face of the earth |
| The medical name for ALS | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
