BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT
Associated Press
In a pregame telephone call on Saturday from Boston’s Children’s Hospital to the Red Sox clubhouse, Jason Leader, an 11-year-old cancer patient, asked his favorite player--Mo Vaughn--to hit a homer. Vaughn promised Jason he would, and did so during the seventh inning against Patterson.
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