The great Lou Gehrig would have been proud.
Ditto for North Carolina and New York Yankees legend Catfish Hunter, who died in 1999 of Lou Gehrig’s disease – properly known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and named for the prewar Yankee icon.
A quartet of Raleigh high school baseball teams got together for the inaugural Chris Combs ALS Baseball Classic doubleheader Thursday on a proverbial perfect night at Doak Field at Dail Park.
The fundraising twin bill honored Combs, an associate director for The Wolfpack Club, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease last May 2 and has spent much of his time since raising awareness of the disease and the funds to help fight it.