Jimmy "Catfish" Hunter was born April 8, 1946 in Hertford, NC. He went straight from high school to pitching for the Oakland A's in the American League, and in his early 20's he pitched a perfect game. He ended up playing for the New York Yankees.

In 1978, at age 32, which is in the Semper Phi Warrior sequence, he developed the autoimmune dis-ease, Type I Insulin dependent diabetes after a bizarre near death experience associated with oil tank explosions in his hometown of Hertford NC. The MASH approach suggests that a prior group warrior experience was revived or resounded, and that's what became "in his life, but did not belong."

Roughly 20 years later - also in the semper phi warrior sequence - he developed ALS and he survived for about two years.

The warrior archetype and his being a "top gun team warrior" would account for a) his amazing pitching ability, b) His Type I insulin dependent diabetes and c) his ALS.

If this MASH  approach to autoimmune dis-ease (and ALS)  is correct, it will save many lives and billions of dollars.