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Tour for the cure

Tim Riley, 25, had a normal life and normal job as an analyst for a consulting company in Philadelphia. But the Temple graduate decided to quit and embark on a mission: Go to all 189 major- and minor-league baseball parks in one season -- 153 days -- and raise money for cancer research.

He has been to 46 states already and three Canadian provinces, and he still has 44 games to go. In minor-league parks, he gets the home team to donate a jersey signed by the team, and he raffles that off. He donates the money to the Jimmy Fund, the fund-raising arm of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

He's slept in his car 15 times, lived out west on In-and-Out burgers because somebody gave him free coupons, and says he has raised about $18,000 so far. He collects autographed bats and bobbleheads from the teams, which he will auction off online at the end of the season to raise more money.

On Sunday he was at the Trenton Thunder -- game 144.

MICHAEL VITEZ / Inquirer Staff Writer

 

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