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Schilling makes
a pitch for a cure

Curt Schilling sure knows how to get his message across. But this doesn't have much to do with baseball.

While the TV cameras focused on the blood-stained right sock of the Boston Red Sox pitcher, I noticed he has the letters KALS written on his shoe, just below the ankle. Turns out the letters stand for "Strikeout Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis."

During the past 13 years, Schilling and his wife Shonda have raised more than $5 million in an effort to further the research and awareness of ALS.

If Boston goes on to win the World Series, I'll find it more than just a bit ironic that a man who has dedicated his life to finding a cure for Lou Gehrig's disease is the same man who pitched the Red Sox past the Curse of the Bambino.

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