Pathway 5, Subject 4

Lou Gehrig's Disease

Solution: DWIGHT GOODEN

This puzzle refers to the baseball game played on 8th July 2000 between the New York Yankees and Mets, which can be found with a bit of googling. The "doctor" refers to Yankees pitcher DWIGHT GOODEN, nickname "Doc".

Author's notes

Author: Dan

This puzzle incorporates my passion for baseball and exploits the fact that baseball recordkeeping and statistics (aka. “sabermetrics”, named after the Society for American Baseball Research, yes this actually exists) is so in-depth and so thorough. Vast databases of this stuff exists and can tell you what any one pitch in any one at-bat in any one inning in any one game during any one season was. This can lead to some pretty hilarious baseball analysis.

Given the neurological flavour of this puzzle set, I thought that it was relevant to invoke Lou Gehrig and his fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which was what the viral “Ice Bucket Challenge” back in 2014 was designed to raise money for. People in Australia might know this condition better as Motor Neuron Disease (MND) and associate it with the 2025 Australian of the Year, Neale Daniher, and his fight against “The Beast”.

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