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Article: TIMELY HISTORY OF JIMMY FUND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2002
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In July 1999, an 80-year-old Ted Williams, in Boston to make an
emotional entrance at the All-Star Game at Fenway Park, stopped by
the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, not far from the ballpark on
Brookline Avenue in Boston.
Williams, a prime mover in the Red Sox affiliation with the Jimmy
Fund, dating back to 1953, was there to meet the young patients at
Dana-Farber along with the original "Jimmy," a truck driver from
Maine named Einar Gustafson, who was the inspiration for the fund's
early and continuing success.
As a cancer patient at Children's Hospital in 1948, Gustafson was
visited by members of the National League's Boston Braves, and the
national radio broadcast of their bedside meeting ...