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- Updated: April 20, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — Giants catcher Buster Posey and his wife, Kristen, announced plans Wednesday to spearhead efforts to raise money for research and awareness of pediatric cancer.
Speaking to a throng of reporters before San Francisco’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Posey talked passionately and emotionally about his desire to help young children with cancer, pointing out that government funding covers only 4 percent of the money needed for research.
“It’s not acceptable,” Posey said as he sat at a table with his wife, Giants president and CEO Larry Baer and New Era president and CEO Chris Koch. “We said we’ve got to do something. We can’t sit here and talk about how bad this, we’ve got to try to help.”
At one point Posey choked back tears as he talked about Cannon Wiggins, a 4-year-old who had recently been diagnosed with neuroblastoma. The Poseys, who have 3-year-old twins, learned of Cannon’s condition through a chance meeting between Kristen Posey and Melissa Wiggins, Cannon’s mother, and decided to get involved almost immediately.
“I had no idea the lack of funding that [pediatric cancer] receives,” Kristen Posey said. “Once I found that out, I did not want to sit back and do nothing. That’s easy to do. It’s not all smiling children without …
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