SAN FRANCISCO -- Touched by what he was seeing in front of him, Dick Vitale leaned over and whispered into Buster Posey's ear in the playroom of the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Tuesday morning.
Dozens of children with cancer and their parents crowded into the room to meet the San Francisco Giants catcher. And a woman in front of Vitale and Posey was hugging her baby while tears streamed down her face.
"Crying her eyes out," Vitale, the vibrant ESPN college basketball analyst, said. "They're not going to a baseball game like he is. They're sitting in here from 7 in the morning to 11 o'clock every night.