It was late in the summer of 1988 when a young Vermont boy battling a rare and deadly form of cancer was granted his one wish -- to meet childhood hero and Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly.
The meeting was arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and a grainy family video taken at the time shows the mustachioed Mattingly sitting down next to the boy inside the visitor’s dugout at Boston’s Fenway Park.
There is Mattingly autographing a poster of himself and handing it to the boy, who is wearing a Yankees cap, and the boy sorting through a stack of baseball cards in search of one of Mattingly to show the All-Star player.