and when i first biography was was a biography, lou gehrig.and gehrig was so shy he never gave any interviews? i had no. if i was getting him right. was he shy? he was just really insecure. was he shy because he was stupid and he didn't want to open his mouth? and he revealed right. i wasn't sure. and i would have dreamed about spotting him across the room and oh, my, it's gehrig. i can finally go talk to him. and he would always and walk away. as i approached with one dream, i saw him hitchhiking and i pulled over. i can't believe it. i'm going. he's hitchhiking. and i pulled over and he said no, keep going. and that is my constant fear. and with martin luther king, maybe more than any, because he means so much to the world, really believe he's the greatest american we've ever produced. and to take his life in my hands is absurd, is it? nobody has that right? but every biographer takes that leap of faith that that act of hubris. and all i can do is like it. my best shot and hope that he appreciates that i tried my hardest and no doubt i got l

you will be honoring ten women who have als, lou gehrig's disease.ly lou gehrig is synonymous with the yankees. and als, unfortunately, we don't have the cure for. those touched by that disease, it's awful you know, one of ours in the baseball community, sara lange, will be one of the people we get to honor i got to work with her when she was back at espn she's an amazing, amazing person she is working and thriving and living with it right now we will get to be around amazing women tomorrow to honor them and hopefully shine more of a light on als and especially with lou gehrig and the yankees i can't think of anything better. >> congratulations on making the all star team. >> thank you. >> it is wild to think you joined the yankees during the pandemic but now here we are and you can get out in the community what is it like to see people face to face now >> it's new york it's back on its feet. the best city in the world the energy, the vibe, there is nothing that can beat it, really. >> so, you know, for folks -- the three or four folks that haven't b

the first baseman who gave his job away to lou gehrig started lou gehrig's record streak of consecutive games, played. but what people forget about wally is that he had led the league twice in home runs. he was a great player and he actually he actually tutored gehrig he had in playing first base and how to get along with the yankees and how to get along with mr. ruth here to another great player who played for forever was a guy named dutch leonard a pitcher and that's leonard had pitched a no hitter for the red sox that then i'm a longtime red sox fan. and in 1914 he had an under one era, a so everybody remains, oh, 225 innings under one under 100. 94i think is that the all time record so everybody thinks of bob gibson as 1.12 in 68 as the all time record but that's leonard really holds a modern record. so i learned from bethlehem globe stories about some of the great games that were played in bethlehem, and there a doubleheader in july of 1918 played at lehigh, a baseball stadium, which had the four river team. that's a team against the bethlehem team. jeff, the pitcher from the giant

that's also known as lou gehrig's disease. and the deadly disease affects the nerve cells in the brynn and spinal cord, causing patients their ability to move and speak. cbs' chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook shows us how artificial intelligence is helping patients preserve their voices. >> hi, my name is ryan, and this is my story of living with als. >> reporter: 46-year-old brian talks to the world about his journey with als through tiktoks, making the videos with his family and caregivers. he began recording them when he was still able to speak on his own. >> married for almost 18 years. have i five kids. >> another thing, making me sad. i'm losing my ability to speak. >> reporter: but with the help of artificial intelligence, he has been able to keep his ability to speak through a process called voice preservation. >> imagine having no way to commute your wants or needs or your love. voice preservation gives that back to us. this in many ways saved my life. >> can you understand me okay? >> reporter: cbs news firs

the screen was my old professor looking very and sickly and that's how i found out that he had lou gehrig's disease. and was dying from it. and probably wouldn't be around for more than another six months or so. and i ended up calling him out of guilt, then visiting him out guilt. and then one visit turned to another, another, another. and pretty soon the guilt passed to an education. and we ended up taking one last class together. what was really important in life? once you know you're going to die. and that's who morrie ended. we was. and then how he became kind of the morrie of tuesdays morrie after you got turned down many publishers before it was written did it hurt confidence about how well this book do i had no confidence i couldn't hurt it i had no confidence that it was going to do anything whatsoever. my goal, as i say, was to pay his. and i had accomplished that. i was so green at writing a book like, tuesdays with morrie. i'd only written two books before, and they both sports books. so all i thought, this is going to be a little deviation from sports books and be a book that my

that is also known as lou gehrig's disease, and the deadly disease affects the nerve cells in the brainse their ability to move and speak. cbs's chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook shows us how artificial intelligence is helping patients preserve their voices. >> hi, my name is ryan, and this is my story of living with als. >> reporter: 46-year-old brian jeansonne talks to the world about his journey with als through tiktoks. making the videos with his family and caregivers, he began recording them when he was still able to speak on his own. >> been married for almost 18 years. have five kids. >> but nothing that is taken away. makes me real sad, i was losing my ability to speak. >> reporter: but with the help of artificial intelligence, jeansonne has been able to keep his ability to speak, through a process called voice preservation. >> imagine having no way to communicate your wants or needs or your love. voice preservation gives that back to us. this, in many ways, saved my life. >> can you understand me okay? >> reporter: cbs news first covered voice preservation seven years

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who was the first baseball player to be future on a us postage stamp, babe ruth, lou gehrig, roger maresey: i will go with jackie robinson. stuart: i will go with him too. lauren: the same, jackie robinson is my guess. stuart: the answer is jackie robinson. the stamp was issued in 1982. first baseball player on a us postage stamp, the markets are in rally mode as we approach the end of the week, dollars up 126, that is it for "varney and company" for the week but coast-to-coast starts now.

really make things happen on the baseball paths, and they weren't able to play against people like lou gehriging events. and so it was jackie. but the positive thing from this experience to is that within our black communities they gave entertainment and excitement for our people to come out and see our players play, and fortunately at some point they realized in the major leagues that they needed to bring in some of these players and not just to break the barrier of segregation, but for my perspective, from a profit motive because it was going to bring more people into the ballparks. >> sam, it is a extraordinary work, and we know that you have on earth some never before seen footage in interviews with some of the people who were there. tell us a little bit, give us a story to about some of the big personalities for athletes. like a josh gibson or satchel paige. what will we learn from this? >> you will learn first of all there was women in ruth foster in 1920 who had been a phenomenal pitcher and an owner who basically founded the knee grow -- negro national league in kansas city, missouri.

artificial intelligence is being used to help those whose voices were robbed by als, also known as lou ge gehrig's dr. jon lapook. >> hi. my name is ryan, and this is my story of living with als. >> reporter: 46-year-old brian johnson talked to the world about his journey with als through tiktoks, making the videos with his family and caregivers. he began recording them when he was still able to speak on his own. >> i've been married for almost 18 years. i have five kids. >> another thing that als taken away. makes me sad is losing my ability to speak. >> reporter: but with the help of artificial intelligence, johnson has been able to keep his ability to speak through a process called voice preservation. >> imagine having no way to communicate your wants or needs or your love. voice preservation gives that back to us. this, in many ways, saved my life. >> can you understand me okay? >> reporter: cbs news first covered voice preservation seven years as als patients at boston children's hospital recorded their voices for playback later when they lost their ability to speak. since then, the technolog

had the athletic ability to make things happen on the paths and they weren't able to play against lou gehrigey gave a form of entertainment and excitement for our people to come out and see our players play, you know, and fortunately at some point they realized in the major leagues they needed to bring in some of these players not just to be, you know, to break the barrier of segregation, but from my perspective, from a profit motive because it was going to bring more people to the ballparks. >> sam, it's an extraordinary work, and i know you've got some -- you've unearthed some never before seen footage and interviews with some of the people who were there. tell us a little bit, give us a story or two about some of the big personalities, like a josh gibson or a satchel paige. >> there was a man named rube foster in 1920 who had been a manager and owner who basically started the negro national league in kansas city, missouri, and then you learn in the '30s there were other people like, you know, gus greenley and cum posey who were great owners of teams like the grays and the pittsburgh crawf