BOSTON (AP) -- Andrew Madden sat between Red Sox president Larry Lucchino and Wally the Green Monster in Boston's dugout, and when the bullpen phone rang, he didn't hesitate to pick it up.
Not bad for a 13-year-old from Odessa, Texas, who has spent more than two months at Children's Medical Center of Dallas waiting for, receiving and recovering from a heart transplant -- even if the bullpen line was dead.
"It's amazing. This park is so huge. It's awesome," he said. "I never thought any of this would be possible."
Andrew had used Boston's postseason run to help keep his mind off how sick he was, and when the Red Sox found out how devoted he -- and his heart surgeon -- were to the team, they helped get the pair and Andrew's mother to Game 2 of the World Series against the Colorado Rockies.
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"I just wanted to go to Fenway Park, just for once, but a World Series game, that's just a once in a lifetime thing, for sure," he said.
It wasn't until they arrived that Lucchino offered another surprise: Andrew, whose favorite position to play is pitcher, would throw out the game's first pitch.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AmTYjvTlBFhrncnWlSuzvuYT0bYF?slug=ap-redsoxfan-transplant&prov=ap&type=lgnsThis story makes me sooooo happy :)
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