The Jimmy Fund: Of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

by Saul Wisnia

Book Overview

The Jimmy Fund of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute captures each step of this remarkable journey, including the uplifting 1998 return of Einar Jimmy Gustafson to Dana-Farber after fifty years of anonymity and presumed death.

In May 1948, a nationwide radio audience first heard a twelve-year-old cancer patient known only as Jimmy as he was visited bedside by members of his beloved Boston Braves baseball team. An appeal for support followed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738510459
• ISBN13: 9780738510453
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.2"