pediatric cancer. john partnered with the cancer research foundation about three years ago and last year in 2012 we launched but never quit platform across the country. green monster is a beast. p.s.a. was filmed, i believe, in april of 2012 and john talks about fighting i fought and beat cancer. now it s time to fight for the kids. each ball represents a child diagnosed with cancer. we travel across the country to the parks where john is playing and when he s not pitching that night, we bring some kids down to the field on batting practice and we get them tickets and they have a whole night at the stadium and we give them the never quit balls and remind the kids, never quit. teams have been great as far as hosting us and hosting these kids and getting them to the game and getting tickets and so it s been a good thing for us to build and it s fun. was it hard? was it hard? yeah.
angeles among others. thanks, ken. and here is a tweet from jon lester jon: well, right now zane is undergoing a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplants. his parents say he is in good spirits and even got to watch the beginning of last night s game. the score had to pump him up. if you want to learn more, check out the pediatric cancer research foundation s web site at pcrf-kids.org. harris: that smile is just so beautiful. the disastrous rollout of the health care web site getting its first public airing on capitol hill. it s been spirited inside that hearing. the problem s now an embarrassment if the obama administration. what the contractors responsible for the web site have to say, plus reaction now from the white house. chasing tornadoes now a popular tourist attraction. coming up, why they do it and what the risk is for this. you know what they say.
talking about that earlier this year. last night announcers gave him a special shoutout for his work with peed i pediatric cancer patients. the idea of the foundation is to raise money for the pediatric cancer research foundation. he went ton talk about some of the kids he works with. lester does meet and greets with kids who are members of the foundation. john daley made a come back in shanghai after undergoing elbow surgery. he shot a bogey 3, 4 under par at the bmw masters. he says he feels great and drank a ton of vitamin milk to help him heal, unlike what he used to have.
plenty of drama including an overturned call, and in the end the boston red sox clobbered the st. louis cardinals 8-1. starting pitcher jon lester allowing just five hits and no runs over seven and two-thirds inningsment back in 2007 lester came back from a season off recovering from cancer and since then has been very active promoting pediatric cancer treatment and research. fox news did a piece on a meeting with lester had with a little boy suffering from cancer during last night s game fox s ken rosenthal gave in this shoutout. lester has done some great work in recent years to help kids with cancer. last year he and his fife farrah launched nvrqt, that s short for never quit, and the idea is to raise money and awareness for the pediatric cancer research foundation. lester also did a number of meets and greets with kids who are undergoing treatment x he has remained in contact with a 6-year-old boy he met in los
you mentioned, he also pitched a no-hitter. now the manager of the red sox who was lester s pitching coach back in the day says that s one comeback he ll never forget. somewhat of a storybook ending to 2007, but i think what it did, it set the stage for john s career to really take off in the years following that. reporter: john s recovery also set the stage for the never quit campaign, a partnership with the pediatric cancer research foundation. green monster s a beast. reporter: with a perceived emphasis on adult-related cancer, lester thought it was time to focus in another area. i ve fought and beat cancer, now it s time to fight for the kids. reporter: on nights he s not on the mound whether at home or on the road, he meets with children and parents who are fighting pediatric cancer. was it hard? was it hard? yeah. it was hard. but, you know, it was i think it helps you later, you know? and once it s over, nothing else holds you down. it s hard, hard for you?