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Article: AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Boston's Lester feeling mighty good Pitcher gets start today
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2008
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Boston -- As training camp progressed in the spring of 2007,
Boston manager Terry Francona knew left-hander Jon Lester was
getting frustrated at the slow pace in which he was allowed to work.
"I made a call to his folks in spring training and told them,
'We're really going to (make your son mad),' and they laughed,"
Francona recalled. "They said, 'We understand why.'
"We were going to go slow with him and we did. And it was very
frustrating to him."
The team's concern at that time was understandable. Lester was
diagnosed in August 2006 with anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a form
of cancer. He spent that off-season undergoing chemotherapy
treatments and was given a clean bill of health before ...