MILWAUKEE -- When Anthony Rizzo visits cancer patients, he is reminded of a meeting he had with a cancer survivor, which helped inspire the Cubs' first baseman to create his foundation and try to make it easier for families to deal with the horrible disease. Rizzo's efforts would make Roberto Clemente proud.
When Rizzo was an 18-year-old prospect in the Red Sox organization in 2008, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Theo Epstein, who was Boston's general manager at the time, helped arrange a meeting between Rizzo and pitcher Jon Lester, who also had battled lymphoma and beaten it less than two years earlier.