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  1.                                  record). On June 3, 1932, 
  2.                                  he became the first 
  3.                                  American Leaguer to hit 
  4.                                  four homers in a single 
  5.                                  game. In 1934, the last 
  6. year that Lou and Babe played together, Lou
  7. won the Triple Crown by leading the league
  8. in homers (49), RBIs (165), and batting
  9. average (.363). 
  10.  
  11. In spring training of 1939, Lou felt weak and 
  12. sluggish. After about a month into the sea-
  13. son, he took himself out of the lineup. Then 
  14. he took some medical tests. An examination
  15. found that the 35-year-old star had a rare,
  16. incurable disease of the nervous system
  17. called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  18. [ah-my-uh-TROFF-ick LAT-err-uhl
  19. skluh-ROW-sis]. Few people had ever
  20.