Tuesday will mark three years since the death of former Orioles public relations director Monica Barlow to lung cancer, and as time passes, the team’s roster includes more players who didn’t know Barlow or her battle against Stage IV lung cancer.
It has become an annual spring training tradition for players and staff to wear orange LUNGevity T-shirts that also say “In Memory of Monica” on the front in pregame every year on Feb 28.
The Orioles wore the shirts on Monday, one day before the anniversary of Barlow’s death, because the team will play on the road on Tuesday and won’t have the full squad assembled together.