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  1. Before BoΓÇÖs mom diedΓÇöthree weeks
  2. after his hip surgeryΓÇö he promised her
  3. that he would play baseball again and
  4. that he would give her the ball from his
  5. first hit. In his first at-bat against the
  6. New York Yankees, he hit a homer into
  7. the rightfield bleachers. One of BoΓÇÖs
  8. biggest fans, 16-year-old Greg
  9. Ourednick caught it. Some of the fans
  10. around him told him he could get
  11. money for the ball, but Greg remem-
  12. bered reading that Bo wanted the ball
  13. as a gift to his mother.
  14.  
  15. After the inning, Greg waited outside the