Orioles second baseman Jonathan Schoop with 5-year-old Andrew Oberle, who is battling leukemia and was at spring training last week through Casey Cares.
For a 5-year-old boy who is still learning to write, in a generation where nearly everything is digital, Andrew Oberle is finding serious value in the handwritten word.
Late last year, Andrew wrote a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan, giving him advice on cancer treatment, then shared the stage with the governor when he announced his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was in remission. Andrew himself is battling leukemia.
And as part of a Casey Cares trip in which Andrew; his father, Brian; and Brian’s father, Ed, were in Sarasota for a pair of Orioles spring training games last week, he enlisted a new friend to deliver his latest handwritten note.