<p>“Like most medical students, Michael Gott has a lot of student debt. Unlike most medical students, his family possesses the baseball that Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig hit for a home run during the 1928 World Series. Not for long, though, because Gott’s mother is selling the ball to help pay off her son’s loans.”</p>
<p>Too bad great-granny threw out all those Mickey Mantle rookie cards.</p>
<p>[Lou</a> Gehrig baseball is nice, student debt isn’t: Start the auction - latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-baseball-auction-20120706,0,4907261.story]Lou”>Lou Gehrig baseball is nice, student debt isn't: Start the auction)</p>