EAST LANSING - When Kirk Gibson was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, he thought it was a death sentence.
More than two years since he received the life-altering news, the former Michigan State two-sport standout and Major League Baseball star bound into the Red Cedar Room at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center on Saturday afternoon. He had both fists clenched before sitting down to talk about his fight.
Gibson was part of a press conference to announce "Gibby & Friends vs. Parky," an effort to raise $1.2 million for Michigan State's College of Human Medicine, to research and combat Parkinson's Disease.