Talk:The Jimmy Fund

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are u sure that they tracked "jimmy" down in 1998? that doesnt sound very likely.

It's true. Everyone at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund thought that the boy who was on the radio broadcast that began it all had died of cancer. No one knew his name. They had made up the name "Jimmy" to keep him anonymous. Einar Gustafson was a truck driver in Maine and I would guess he thought keeping anonymous was the best thing. Close to DFCI's 50th birthday I believe he contacted someone at the Jimmy Fund and there was an announcement. MBCF 13:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Jeffy?
Excuse me... new to wikipedia editing... but I don't understand the headline "Jeffy: The boy who launched the jimmy fund" The word "Jeffy" doesn't appear anywhere else in the article, let alone in this heading. Who the hell is Jeffy, then, and why is he mentioned in the headline, but nowhere else?

Events
It would be a good idea for someone to find out and provide the annual dates for these events. VoL†ro/\/Force 14:33, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Annual Exhibition Baseball Game
I seem to recall that the Red Sox and Braves used to play an annual exhbition game in support of the Jimmy Fund. This went on for a few years even after the Braves moved to Milwaukee. Maybe someone can document this. WHPratt (talk) 03:53, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, it wasn't quite annual. Biennial more or less.

Retrosheet.org has a list of in-season exhibition games involving major league clubs throughout history. It's admittedly incomplete and still being researched. I extracted any Boston versus Boston or Milwaukee or Atlanta from it, and present the results below.

(I removed one entry that appears to be in error: Retrosheet had the teams playing two 5-inning 7-3 games in 1959 exactly a month apart. I find that on June 20, 1959, Milwaukee was at San Francisco and Boston hosted Chicago, so the July 20 date just got copied twice witrh an error in the month field. WHPratt (talk) 20:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC))

Wednesday, September 23, 1931, at Boston MA: Boston Braves (N) 4, Boston Red Sox (A) 3.

Wednesday, June 29, 1932, at Boston MA: Boston Red Sox (A) 6, Boston Braves (N) 3.

Wednesday, September 27, 1933, at Boston MA: Boston Braves (N) 2, Boston Red Sox (A) 1.

Friday, August 31, 1934, at Boston MA: Boston Red Sox (A) 6, Boston Braves (N) 4.

Tuesday, July 10, 1945, at Boston MA: Boston Red Sox (A) 8, Boston Braves (N) 1.

'''Monday, July 11, 1949, at Boston MA: Boston Red Sox (A) 6, Boston Braves (N) 2.

'''Monday, July 22, 1957, at Boston MA: Milwaukee Braves (N) 13, Boston Red Sox (A) 4.

Saturday, June 20, 1959, at Boston MA: Milwaukee Braves (N) 7, Boston Red Sox (A) 3 (5 innings).

'''Monday, July 20, 1959, at Boston MA: Milwaukee Braves (N) 7, Boston Red Sox (A) 3 (5 innings).

'''Monday, August 21, 1961, at Boston MA: Milwaukee Braves (N) 4, Boston Red Sox (A) 1.  Monday, June 3, 1963, at Boston MA: Boston Red Sox (A) 5, Milwaukee Braves (N) 2.  Monday, June 6, 1966, at Boston MA: Boston Red Sox (A) 5, Atlanta Braves (N) 3. ''' As you can see, the teams met regularly over 1931-34, probably a City Series thing. The 1945 game was one of a series of exhibitions staged in place of the All-Star Game due to wartime travel restrictions. I believe that the remaining games were Jimmy Fund events.

If anyone wants to add this to the article, be my guest. WHPratt (talk) 14:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC) Update; I later emboldened what I think are the relevant games. WHPratt (talk) 16:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Pan-Mass Challenge COI edit request
Hi, I work for a communications firm that represents the Pan-Mass Challenge. I'd like to request some updates to the Pan-Mass Challenge section of this article, which currently contains no sources. For simplicity's sake, I've copied the section below with deletions struck through and additions highlighted in yellow.

Due to my COI, I won't be editing the article directly. I appreciate any help or feedback. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 18:53, 9 January 2019 (UTC); request edit template added Mary Gaulke (talk) 19:37, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ thanks Chetsford (talk) 19:15, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! Mary Gaulke (talk) 19:42, 10 February 2019 (UTC)