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- Updated: May 18, 2016
CHICAGO — Prior to going to U.S. Cellular Field for Wednesday’s game against the White Sox, Astros outfielder Colby Rasmus spent some time at Shriners Hospital for Children with 8-year-old baseball fan Owen Mahan, who was burned on 98 percent of his body in a 2009 accident.
Rasmus, who was accompanied by his two kids, played Wiffle ball and spent time talking baseball with Mahan, who made his way to the game and met several players on the field while collecting autographs and pictures. Rasmus even gave him a jersey.
“I was contacted with some information about him, and they asked me if I wanted to go and I said I would like to go,” Rasmus said. “We set it up to go over there and see him. It’s one of those things to kind of help somebody that’s been through a lot of stuff in his life.
“He was 2 years old at the time when he went through those things and he didn’t know what was going on. To see how his spirit is … He still feels pretty good and he’s laughing and …
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