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- Updated: July 20, 2016
OAKLAND — The A’s held their 17th annual Root Beer Float Day prior to Tuesday’s game against the Astros at the Coliseum, an event in which players, celebrities and members of the media served root beer floats to fans to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which combats Type-1 Diabetes.
The A’s sold floats and limited-edition mugs to fans, and raised $38,460 and have now raised more than $486,000 throughout the event’s history. A’s outfielder Sam Fuld has Type 1 Diabetes and had a lengthy line of fans waiting for him throughout the event as he signed commemorative ice cream mugs and took pictures with fans.
Fuld, who sits on the board of JDRF’s Tampa Bay chapter and organizes an annual sports camp for youth athletes with Type 1, acknowledged the event’s importance, adding that JDRF “is near and dear to my heart.”
“It’s a physically demanding disease, but it’s also a mentally and emotionally demanding disease, too,” Fuld said.
Type 1 Diabetes is rarer than Type 2, and occurs when the body’s immune system destroys cells that release insulin, …
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