[BC] prayer request

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Donna:

I'll say a prayer for your dearly departed mother and Red Sox Pitcher Jon
Lester on the air this afternoon.

Paul Walker
WWNH-AM "Love 1340"


www.walkerbroadcasting.com
walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com

On 9/2/06, Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com> wrote:
>
> I sent this to another list-serv, but I also wanted to send it to the
> nice people on this one, where I have a number of cyber-friends.  I
> know there are a number of sports fans on this list-serv, and some of
> you may recall listening to sports late night on the radio, back when
> it wasn't all syndicated talk shows.  Anyone remember hearing people
> like Vin Scully and Phil Rizzuto and Herb Carneal and Mel Allen and
> Harry Caray?  Those baseball broadcasters knew how to make you feel
> as if you were sitting there at the game... I was just another kid
> from a lower-middle class neighbourhood, and I didn't have money to
> travel to distant cities, so I was grateful that my radio took me
> there.  But I digress.
>
> As some of you may know, the Red Sox just announced that 22 year old
> rookie pitcher Jon Lester has been diagnosed with cancer-- and alas,
> the kind he has is the kind that killed my mother, of blessed
> memory.  We can only hope they caught it early, but for those who
> believe in the power of prayer, please remember him in yours. Boston
> Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, whose daughter recovered from
> cancer, writes about the Jon Lester story
> here:
>
> http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/articles/2006/09/02/this_news_hits_close_to_home?mode=PF
>
> _______________________________________________




-- 
Paul B. Walker, Jr.
www.walkerbroadcasting.com
walkerbroadcasting at gmail.com