Extra Innings
Fred Claire's Journey to City of Hope and Finding a World Championship Team
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Publisher Description
Fred Claire was a longtime marketing executive with the team, widely admired for his character, work ethic, and ingenuity. But he was a former sportswriter with no experience in player trades and roster construction. Yet, just a year later, the Dodger team Claire built shocked the baseball world by winning the 1988 World Series.
But his greatest challenge would come long after he left the game. In 2016, skin cancer that began on Claire’s lip had spread to his jaw. With his life on the line, the former baseball executive found his way to City of Hope National Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Duarte.
While Extra Innings recalls Claire’s remarkable baseball career, it also recounts the miraculous story of his cancer fight at City of Hope. Readers will be inspired by Claire’s unflinching decency and fortitude—and by the cutting-edge science and compassion that make City of Hope unique in the annals of American medicine.
Customer Reviews
Extra Innings
Fred gave this 19 year old junior college photographer the opportunity of a lifetime to become the LA Dodger team photographer from 1974-1979 experiencing three World Series including walking Frank Sinatra to center field to sing the National Anthem.
In the process I learned the Fred Claire/Dodger way to treat players and the front office team, even the new kid. The Walter and Peter O’Malley years of ownership taught me that managers such as Fred can challenge you to do your very best but in a nice way. Then you want to freely give your 100% and more.
Fred assembled a World Series championship team which stands on its own merit in baseball history.
The real story is that Fred brought along so many players and front office team members along for the ride. Working for Fred and the O’Malley family was reaching the pinnacle in sports regardless of your position.
Fred’s chapter II in life is actually even more impressive with his connection and support for the City of Hope.
The inter winding of Dodger baseball and the City of Hope and Fred’s struggle to survive cancer kept me reading it straight thru.
The City of Hope may not sound like good reading material but I challenge you to follow Fred’s story, the LA Dodger story.
Experience a front row seat seeing how the City of Hope’s impressive story of leading edge cancer research and helping to save lives that beforehand would have been lost.
Then look into the mirror and ask yourself, what can I do to help change at least one life in a positive way. Find your cause and sign up and make a difference like Fred has done.