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Oct 22, 2013 · October 22, 2013. BOSTON -- When Jon Lester takes the mound against the Cardinals in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday (airing at 7:30 ET on FOX/8:07 first pitch) at Fenway Park, not only will he be standing up for the Red Sox, but he'll be standing up for cancer survivors and patients everywhere. "To be honest with you, I hadn't really ...
Dec 1, 2017 · Dec 1, 2017. Start Conversation. Never quit. That’s a lesson Chicago Cubs pitcher and cancer survivor Jon Lester has learned, time and time again. Lester, 32, was diagnosed with lymphoma a ...
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With his 2007 World Series MVP award for the World Champion Boston Red Sox, Lowell reached heights that would have been unthinkable only a few years before. Prior to spring training 1999, a then-24-year-old Lowell was diagnosed with testicular cancer, undergoing surgery on Feb. 21 of that year. Remarkably, he returned to the field on May 29 and wen...
One of the game’s top sluggers in the power-mad mid-1990s, Galarraga proved that his power wasn’t merely a result of the thin Coloradoair, smacking 44 homers in his first season in Atlanta in 1998. That offseason, though, persistent back pain gave way to a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on his second lumbar vertebra. Chemotherapy treatment for...
A unique combination of speed and power, Davis in 1987 became the first player in MLB history to hit a least 30 home runs and steal at least 50 bases in the same season, a year after he joined Rickey Henderson as the only two players to hit 25 or more homers and steal 80 or more bases in the same season. He never scaled those dizzying heights again...
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Mar 15, 2009 · “That’s great, but what can I say? I don’t want to be Jon Lester, cancer survivor. I want to be Jon Lester, pitcher.” Lester was born and raised in Puyallup, Wash., the only child of a ...
Jan 12, 2022 · Jon Lester, cancer survivor, knew better than that, better than anyone on the field that night. “I wanted to pitch better than the last time [six hits, three runs, 5 2/3 innings in Game 1, which the Cubs lost],” Lester said. “That’s all I was thinking about.”. Lester fell behind, 1-0, in the second inning of Game 5.
Jon's involvement as the face of NVRQT (never quit) is special. Not solely because of his stature as a World Series Major League pitcher, but more notably be...
Jan 7, 2009 · But midway through the televised game, when Lester appeared poised to pitch a no-hitter, Wil's father, Quin, mentioned nonchalantly, "You know, Jon Lester is a cancer survivor." Wil was enraptured.
