bob asked lou gehrig to sign his lucky ball and he did sign the ball on his birthday in june of 1939, the day he was diagnosed with als. 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. bob sold the baseball to andy. andy bought the ball for the sole purpose that he and his daughter, taylor, who we see in the photo, would give it to mayo clinic to inspire our patients. you have generosity across many generations coming together with this one baseball signed by a great american athlete. this is 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 worked together on the invention and clinical use of cortisone. a drug many of us know now. they received a nobel prize, a classic example of a bridge from discovering something in a lab to applying it for the care of patients. the word came to mayo clinic by a text message, not the way you would get a text message on your phone but by a western union telegra

bob asked mr. lou gehrig to sign his ball. and he did sign the ball the day he was diagnosed with the disease. the color photo shows bob still treasuring that baseball. at the end of his life, bob sold that ball to a local business executive here in rochester. and andy bought the ball for the soul purpose that he and his daughter taylor would give it to mayo clinic to display to inspire our patients. so you have a generosity coming together with this one baseball signed by a great american athlete. other examples here would be a replica of the noble prize that mayo clinic received in 1950. two mayo staff members. dr. kendell, a laboratory scientist and dr. finch, worked together on the invention of cortisone. a drug many of us know now. they received this noble prize, a classic example of a bridge from discovering something in the lab to applying it to the care of patients. and the word came to mayo clinic by a text message, a western union telegram announcing that. they were team based in their philosophy that they used part o