Gift That Keeps On Giving ; Though He Lost His Bout with Cancer, Dana-Farber Patient Todd Schwartz' Bold Idea Lives On, Allowing Children at the Jimmy Fund Clinic Sweet Escape Through Sports Outings

Boston Herald (December 24, 2006)

Author: Steve Buckley

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This is a story that, while it ends as a holiday story, it does not begin as one.

The date: Sunday, July 21, 2002. The place: Yankee Stadium.

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Gift That Keeps On Giving ; Though He Lost His Bout with Cancer, Dana-Farber Patient Todd Schwartz' Bold Idea Lives On, Allowing Children at the Jimmy Fund Clinic Sweet Escape Through Sports Outings

Somewhere in the crowd that day was a group of college kids from Westwood. It was a good, old-fashioned road trip for the boys from Westwood, replete with all the makings for lifelong memories: The Red Sox. The Yankees. The House That Ruth Built. Perfect.

To Todd Schwartz, it was something decidedly more. Having spent most of the year und...

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