The Final 9

By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com






LOS ANGELES -- Major League Baseball is teaming up with entertainers, foundations, businesses and three of the top four television networks -- ABC, CBS and NBC -- in the quest to find a cure for cancer.
The new initiative, called "Stand Up To Cancer," was introduced on Wednesday morning on all three networks and at press conferences at the Paley Center for Media in both New York and Beverly Hills.

"This initiative has presented an historic and unique plan to fight this deadly disease, and it is a privilege for me and Major League Baseball to join this magnificent effort," said Commissioner Bud Selig, a survivor of skin cancer. "We have pledged many of our valuable resources in an attempt to assist in every way we can."

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