An All Star team of baseball's cancer survivors

Big League Stew posted 5/20/2008 from sports.yahoo.com [flag]

Jon Lester is far from the first player to beat cancer and return in a big, big way ... [link]

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Morning Constitutional: The All-Cancer Team
Published 5/20/2008 at The Sporting Blog
An All-Star team of baseball's cancer survivors | Big League Stew A full roster of players who kicked cancer and went on to continue (somewhat) glorious careers. ...

Baseball Today: Wednesday, May 21
Published 5/21/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... THE REAL SURVIVORS: The Red Sox have four current and former players -- Jon Lester, Mike Lowell, Mark Loretta and Derek Lowe -- on Yahoo! Sports' All-Cancer Survivor Team. ...

A Tale of Two Pitchers
Published 5/24/2008 by shaun at Section 435
... Arizona 11, Atlanta 1. On the mound today the Diamondbacks had Doug Davis, an inspirational story waiting to happen in his first return since losing his thyroid to cancer. (After Davis, Jon Lester, et. al., baseball might be adding cancer to the list of PEDs.) ...

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DaveKingman posted 5/20/2008 from www.dugoutcentral.com

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