Anthony Rizzo understands being a professional baseball player involves more than what happens on the diamond.
Back in 2012, his first season with the Cubs, he started the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation to help pediatric cancer patients and their families. (Rizzo was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma back in 2008.) And during the COVID-19 crisis, the foundation has shifted some of its focus to benefit those helping to battle the pandemic.
“We’re trying to be there for people that are in tough times,” Rizzo said in an interview with David Kaplan on NBC Sports Chicago's “Be Chicago: Together We Can" special.