Dodgers fans have donated $30,000 to SickKids
If anything can make us feel better about the Jays’ World Series loss, this is it
Last month, when the Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners and advanced to the World Series—were we ever so young?—Jays fans abandoned any desire to gloat and did something kind instead by donating to the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
As one fan who donated said in their receipt, the funds were “for use in situations that are beyond the game of baseball,” reminding us that while winning is really fun, some things matter more.
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Now, in what’s becoming a caring tradition, LA Dodgers fans are making donations to the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto’s pediatric hospital, which treats around 130,000 young patients every year.
A SickKids representative told the Toronto Star that donations from Dodgers fans had reached $30,000 as of yesterday.
The outpouring even seems to have inspired a few converts after fans noticed that Blue Jays relievers had stamped the number 51 on their caps in support of Dodgers player Alex Vesia, who sat out the World Series due to a family matter. “After being so moved by such a classy gesture,” said one donor on Reddit, “I will be rooting for the Blue Jays whenever they are not playing the Dodgers.”
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
