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For ALS patient, a Phillies wedding of a lifetime

Sports fans often take their love for the game to a level never seen before.

For Richard Meyers, a Phillies fan recently diagnosed with ALS, that was exactly his plan.

Meyers has always loved the sport of baseball - at various points in his life, he served as a high school umpire, Little League coach, and the president of a Little League for 25 years.

But when it was discovered his terminal disease was advancing more rapidly than his family feared, he set out to make a memory that would last forever: a baseball themed wedding.