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Reincarnation of the Year: Mom Claims Her Son Is Baseball Legend Lou Gehrig, Reborn
A Southern California mom believes her 8-year-old son is the reincarnation of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
The kid does, too.
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Cathy Byrd says that when Christian Haupt was just a toddler, he told her that he’d been "a tall baseball player" who had to quit the game because "his body stopped working."
The first baseman, known as the "Iron Man of Baseball" played for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1937, when he was forced to retire because of ALS, the fatal disease that attacks the human nervous system.
The malady is now called Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Christian's mom is so convinced of her son’s past life that she believes she also had one, as Gehrig’s mother.
She said that she was riding in an elevator with her son years ago when he told her, "This looks like a hotel... When I was tall baseball player, I used to stay in hotels almost every night."
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The mother asked if he flew on airplanes as this tall baseball player, to which the boy replied, "No. Mostly trains."
She is so convinced of her son’s claim
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ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. More commonly know as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after the famous baseball player who lost his life to ALS, this disease slowly robs those affected of the ability to walk, speak, and breathe.
In 2002, Amelia Island resident Mark O’Day lost his father, John Louis O’Day, to ALS after a 4 year battle, leaving behind his wife, Ardith, 4 children, and 12 grandchildren, as well as extended family and many friends.
In memory of his father, Mark started a yearly golf tournament to raise money for the ALS Association Florida Chapter. “The outpouring of support from the community over the past 18 years has been overwhelming as we continue to fight for a cure and raise awareness of this devastating disease,” says Mark.
This year’s tournament will be held on Friday, August 4 at Long Point Amelia Island at The Amelia Island Club (The Amelia River Club was mistakenly listed in our July print issue). A Tom Fazio award-winning design, Long Point’s character is shaped by natural waste bunkers, spectacular marshlands, mounded fairways, and true putting Tif Eagle® greens. “We are thrilled to be back at Long Point Golf Club this year, our home course for this an