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The Brave Hearts
Thereafter he played the game for fourteen long years and participated in league matches with distinction. During this period he used to receive injuries intermittently, and yet he did not drop a single match. He used to play with injuries here and there, without bothering about them.
Lov Gehrig
During those fourteen years, he was hit by the ball thrice on the head. Once he fractured an ankle bone. On another occasion, he had to be operated upon for a fracture. Four times the little fingers of his right hand received injuries due to a fracture of the bone. Next came the turn of six of his fingers. Once thumb of his right leg was fractured. Then his right shoulder was injured. Often his back was in severe paid due to stiffness in the back. Despite all this, Gehrig played 2130 league matches continuously during the period between June 1925 to April 1939.
As long as the game of baseball continues to be played, Lov Gehrig's record of playing continuously for fourteen years, and that too despite repeated injuries, would remain intact and unscathed.
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In December 1981 a few physically handicapped persons covered the distance between Pune and Mumbai within eleven days, walking all the way on crutches. They included three young persons namely Shantilal Anandji Sampat, Gopal Bhanushali and Ashok Arjun Gori.
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