Red Sox manager John Farrell ready for a fight
John Farrell always wears a lime-green rubber bracelet on his left wrist, just below his watch. “No One Fights Alone,” it says.
The Red Sox manager wears the largest size available but they still snap from time to time. His hands and wrists are thick, the product of working on his father’s lobster boat off the coast of New Jersey before starting a career in baseball.
“When they break, I put on another one,” Farrell said.
Lime green is the color adopted by victims of lymphoma to help spread awareness of that form of cancer. The disease struck Farrell during the 2015 season, forcing him to temporarily step away from the team and undergo a regimen of chemotherapy that often left him unable to do little more than sit in a chair.
Every scan since has been clear. Now Farrell is five months away from what doctors tell him will be the final check he needs to determine if the cancer is gone for good.
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