Below are a few stories that highlight the relationship between the Red Sox and Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund.
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Ever since Hall of Famer Ted Williams roamed left field at Fenway Park a half-century ago, the Red Sox have been supporting Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund. On Aug. 29, a man with unique ties to both Williams and the charity will be among those at Fenway Park for the annual Jimmy Fund Fantasy Day at Fenway.
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"The Jimmy Fund: Baseball's Favorite Charity," an exhibit at The Sports Museum in Boston, chronicles the long partnership between baseball and the Jimmy Fund. The display traces the relationship from the Jimmy Fund's beginnings in 1948 as a favorite cause of the Boston Braves baseball club through its nearly 60 years with the Red Sox.
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Red Sox pitchers Clay Buchholz and Tim Wakefield are the first Jimmy Fund Co-captains. In this role, the duo will be ambassadors for the Dana-Farber charity, raising awareness and building support for cancer care and research throughout Red Sox Nation.
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On Friday, April 23, 2010, Red Sox pitchers Tim Wakefield and Clay Buchholz joined Dana-Farber President Edward J. Benz Jr., MD, at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to officially announce their role as Jimmy Fund Co-captains for the 2010 season.
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Mike Andrews stepped down at the end of 2009 after more than 30 years as Chairman of Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund. In his honor, his former colleagues established the "#2 Fund" to aid pediatric cancer research at Dana-Farber.
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For pediatric cancer patient Dan Pardi, former Red Sox players like Mo Vaughn, Nomar Garciaparra, and John Valentin were heroes who helped him through his fight against cancer 14 years ago.
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Chairman Mike Andrews celebrates 30 years with the Jimmy Fund in 2009, marking a milestone in a "second career" that followed his first with the Red Sox.
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The Jimmy Fund congratulates 2008 American League MVP Dustin Pedroia. The first Boston second baseman ever to win the award, Pedroia is also a strong supporter of the Jimmy Fund.
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Tim Wakefield didn't pitch in Chicago on Aug. 9, but he still made a big impression on one very special group of fans who traveled from Boston to see the Red Sox take on the White Sox that Saturday at U.S. Cellular Field.
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It's hard to find two scarier words than war and cancer. In the case of the O'Neill family of Brookline, both have been spoken daily for far too long. Now, however, they'll be going on the back burner.
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More than 400 companies, 100 schools, and thousands of Boston Red Sox fans across New England collectively contributed more than $500,000 toward cancer care and research initiatives at Dana-Farber while taking part in the Jimmy Fund's third annual Rally Against Cancer.
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The famed "Yankee curse" jersey sold to Imperialcars.com president Kevin Meehan, of Mendon, Mass., on April 24. Dana-Farber auctioned off the Red Sox shirt adorned with David Ortiz's name and famed No. 34 after it was discovered in two feet of concrete under the new Yankee Stadium on April 12.
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For more than 60 years, the Jimmy Fund and Twins Enterprise have been favorite organizations of Boston Red Sox fans. Now the two are joining forces to help fight cancer.
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When David Ortiz of the Red Sox proudly showed off his new 2008 World Series ring during Tuesday's Opening Day ceremonies at Fenway Park, a gaggle of photographers jockeyed to get a closer look at Big Papi's bling. Eleven-year-old fan Molly O'Neill, however, had already seen it up close — and even got to try it on before Ortiz.
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Teen patients travel to Spring Training
Thirty-two Jimmy Fund Clinic teenagers traveled to 2008 Spring Training to see the Boston Red Sox in action.
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Former Red Sox second baseman Mike Andrews, Jimmy Fund chairman since 1979, has been deeply involved with the charity for decades. Forty years after playing for the "Impossible Dream" team, Andrews reflects on his introduction to the organization.
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A hospital is the last place you'd expect a kid would want to be on a Wednesday morning, but ask Jennifer Deane how much trouble she has getting her 4-year-old son Dario to come to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and she just laughs. "He loves coming here," she says. The medical procedures, of course, are not enjoyable at all, but the activities they enjoy during their "down time" in the clinic's playroom is a blast thanks in large part to one person — activities assistant Rosemary Lonborg.
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Trot Nixon had some huge hits for the Red Sox, but it's what he and his wife, Kathryn, accomplished for the Jimmy Fund that drew fans to their feet when the couple were honored at Fenway Park prior to Trot's first game against his former teammates as a member of the Cleveland Indians.
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Boston Red Sox fans hit a grand slam in the fight against cancer by raising more than $350,000 for the Jimmy Fund during the second annual Rally Against CancerSM. The final numbers aren't in, as teams continue to pitch in contributions.
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They were the youngest team in the major leagues, filled with guys who were under 25 and making considerably less than $20,000 a year. Yet when members of the 1967 Red Sox gathered in their clubhouse during the pennant race to discuss how to break up the bonus that would come their way with a World Series berth, they decided to vote a full share — about $5,500 — to someone who hadn't had a single at-bat for the club all season: a kid named Jimmy.
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Boston Red Sox pitchers signed autographs at Jillian's Boston on Saturday, January 6, to help the Jimmy Fund in its effort to strike out cancer. With an all-star line-up, "New Stars for Young Stars II" raised more than $30,000 to support cancer care and research at Dana-Farber.
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A tour of Dana-Farber reinforced the strong feelings Ralph Bates had experienced listening to the many moving stories broadcast during the August WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon, and prompted him to donate $1 million.
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The late Ken Coleman, former Red Sox announcer and Jimmy Fund chairman from 1978 to 1984, has been nominated for the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence. The award is named for former baseball commissioner and National League president Ford Frick and has been presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1978.
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It wasn't an average day at Sturbridge Town Hall on Wednesday, June 21. Red Sox right-fielder Trot Nixon stopped by for an hour in the middle of the day to sign autographs and talk to town employees.
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Red Sox right-fielder Trot Nixon visited Furnace Brook Middle School in Marshfield, Mass., which raised more money in the inaugural Rally Against Cancer than any other school.
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Jordan Leandre isn't able to play baseball this spring, but the 5-year-old got to do the next-best thing yesterday: sing the National Anthem on Opening Day at Fenway Park while lined up alongside his Red Sox heroes.
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On Boston Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park, April 11, the Jimmy Fund was on everyone's mind together with fans' hopes for winning another pennant and world championship.
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Jordan Leandre prepares for his Opening Day debut
He's only a 5-year-old, but he's already sung the National Anthem at Fenway Park seven times. CBS-4 News explains Jimmy Fund Clinic patient Jordan Leandre is now preparing to make his Opening Day debut.
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Boston Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino came to Dana-Farber expecting to celebrate the Dana-Farber's new Boston Red Sox Jimmy Fund Gallery on Dana L1 and spread some holiday cheer to pediatric and adult patients. What he didn't anticipate was coming face-to-face with the nurse who had cared for him during his own cancer fight 20 years earlier.
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More than 50 years after they helped spread the word about Dana-Farber in its earliest days, Boston Red Sox legends Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, and Johnny Pesky returned to the Institute to honor both a friend treated here and the memory of their late teammate Ted Williams.
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Red Sox honored at the White House, President Bush praises relationship with Jimmy Fund
President Bush congratulated the World Champion Boston Red Sox in a White House ceremony in front of 1,000 guests. In addition to praising the players' efforts on the field, he acknowledged their efforts off the field as well. View the video from 7News:
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In recent years, the Boston Red Sox have hosted an off-season rookie orientation program for their most promising minor league player prospects. As part of this introduction, 11 of the Sox's top minor leaguers recently dropped in on the Jimmy Fund Clinic for a crash course in "Red Sox Philanthropy 101."
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The year that will live forever in the history of the Boston Red Sox had plenty of moments of glory that weren't captured by a world-wide television audience. Some of the best work the Red Sox did in 2004 — the year they finally won the World Series for the first time since 1918 — was done not on the field, but in the trenches of the community.
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Red Sox license plate orders increase dramatically after American League and World Series wins
Red Sox fans are celebrating the world champs while supporting the Jimmy Fund. The Registry of Motor Vehicles says Red Sox license plate orders doubled the last two weeks of October, translating into almost $12,000 for the Jimmy Fund.
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The Boston Red Sox have always been champions, according to the patients, doctors, nurses, and researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Through thick and thin since 1953, the Red Sox have supported the search for cures at Dana- Farber through its Jimmy Fund, the team's official charity.
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With the Boston Red Sox in St. Louis for the World Series, legendary Fenway Park peanut hawker Rob Barry and a team of canary yellow-clad Aramark vendors burst into the Jimmy Fund Clinic, in an effort to bring patients and families a taste of the World Series.
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For Dana-Farber employees and patients, the Red Sox are more than the hometown ballclub; they're partners — almost teammates — in the Institute's quest to conquer cancer.
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Uri Berenguer-Ramos is in his third season as a radio voice of the Red Sox for Spanish Beisbol Network. At 22, he's the youngest broadcaster in the major leagues, but that's only half of his remarkable story: he's also a cancer survivor who was treated for 16 years in Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund Clinic.
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Former Red Sox second baseman and current Jimmy Fund Chairman Mike Andrews has spent the last 25 years working just a mile from Fenway Park pursuing another dream: an end to cancer.
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Boston Red Sox fans witnessed the power of perseverance and hope at Fenway Park recently, even before their baseball team rallied for yet another unpredictable playoff victory.
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If you can't think of another professional sports team as synonymous with a charity as the Red Sox are with the Jimmy Fund, it's probably because there isn't one.
