bob asked lou gehrig to sign his lucky ball, and he did sign the ball, we think on lou gehrig's birthday, in june of 1939, the day he was diagnosed with als. a very poignant time. he signed the ball for bob and bob kept the ball for 75 years. the color photo shows bob as an elderly man still treasuring the baseball. at the end of his life, bob sold the ball to a local business executive here in rochester. andy bought the ball for the sole purpose that he and his , taylor, whom we see in the photo, would give it to the mayo clinic to display, to inspire our patients. you have generosity across many generations coming together with this one baseball signed by a great american athlete. other examples here would be a replica of the nobel prize that mayo clinic received in 1950. two mayo staff members, dr. edward kendall, a laboratory scientist and dr. philip hinch a clinical rheumatologist, worked together on the invention and clinical use of cortisone. a drug many of us know now. they received this nobel prize, a classic example of a bridge from discovering something in a lab to applying it