The Brigance Brigade Foundation has raised millions of dollars toward providing encouragement and equipment to people living with ALS. Some of the money is also used to find a cure.
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"The ALS community has come a long way since Lou Gehrig's speech at Yankee Stadium," Chanda Brigance said, "but there is still so far to go."
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He now serves in the front office for the Ravens. Brigance, who uses a wheelchair and a communication device that translates his thoughts, is an inspiring figure within the organization and to many battling ALS.
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Gehrig died two years after declaring himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth" in his 1939 speech. Brigance will honor the former Yankees first baseman by participating in the traditional first-pitch ceremony Monday night at the home of the Class A Aberdeen IronBirds.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker O.J. Brigance will take his personal fight against ALS to the baseball diamond on the 77th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's farewell speech at Yankee Stadium.