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Ray Robinson ’41 Honored By ALS Association

Author and sports historian Ray Robinson ’41 received the Jacob Javits Lifetime Achievement Award from The ALS Association/Greater New York Chapter at its 10th annual Lou Gehrig [’25] Sports Awards benefit dinner on October 19.

Among Robinson’s books is Iron Horse, a 1991 biography of Gehrig, who was stricken with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and died from the disease in 1941. Gehrig played baseball and football at Columbia before embarking on a Hall of Fame career with the New York Yankees, for whom he played in 2,130 consecutive games, a Major League record until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995.

Others honored at the dinner were New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, former New York Rangers and Boston Bruins great Phil Esposito and Bucky Dent, the New York Yankees’ 1978 playoff hero who now manages the Yankees’ Columbus farm team.

Proceeds from the event went to The ALS Association/
Greater New York Chapter. The ALS Association is the only national not-for-profit voluntary health organization whose sole mission is to find a cure for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease; improve the lives of people with ALS; and advocate issues of importance to the ALS community.

Ray Robinson ’41 (second from right) is joined by (from left) emcee Jeremy Schaap of ESPN, presenter Bob Costas of NBC and Dorine Gordon, president of the Greater New York Chapter of the ALS Association.

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