Eponymous Baseball-Related Disease Names Not in OED

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Aug 28 14:36:52 UTC 2010


I notice that "Tommy John surgery" is not in OED.  More surprisingly, "Lou Gehrig's disease" also does not appear to be included.

Fred Shapiro

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