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MLB Rallies To Help Boy Whose Baseball Collection Was Destroyed By Fire

As thousands of Californians take stock of the damage caused by wildfires, one 9-year-old boy's story has at least half of the teams in Major League Baseball chipping in.
The Oakland Athletics have led efforts to help replace a nine-year-old's collection of baseball memorabilia destroyed in a wildfire.

As thousands of Californians take stock of the damage caused by wildfires, one boy's story has at least half of the teams in Major League Baseball rallying behind him.

In a letter to the Oakland Athletics, posted

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