Common bond extends beyond game
Published 5/20/2008 by Mike Petraglia at Major League Baseball News
It turns out that Jon Lester and Mel Parnell have a lot more in common than just being left-handed and throwing no-hitters in a Red Sox uniform. The last two southpaws to throw no-hitters for Boston also happen to be cancer survivors.
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