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Young Royals fan who cheered World Series run passes away from cancer

Noah Wilson, who made an indelible mark upon the world long before his loyalty and love for the Kansas City Royals turned him into a motivating force behind the team’s run to the World Series last season passed away on Tuesday after a battle with various cancer-related ailments. He was seven years old.

Wilson, diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a bone cancer, was declared free of the condition following his last round of radiation treatment in mid-June. But the family learned recently that he had leukemia. He began chemotherapy on Monday.

Noah was an incredible boy,” Scott Wilson, Noah’s father, told The Kansas City Star on Wednesday.