BASEBALL GAME BENEFITS BONE MARROW SEARCH.Byline: Teresa Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer Sunday turned out to be a great day for baseball and for Children of Tomorrow, the Ventura County branch of the National Marrow Donor Program The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the federally funded registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors in the United States. These potential donors, numbering more than 6. . Children of Tomorrow's founder, Lynnette Chandler, planned the baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League at Ventura College Ventura College is a California-state funded community college located in Ventura, California. Established in 1925, the college has a 112-acre campus with an enrollment of 13,000 students. The college is part of the Ventura County Community College District. as a fund-raiser for bone marrow tests to benefit Trish Bradley of Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , an FBI agent who has leukemia. During a break in the game, Bradley announced that a match had been found for her. She will go to the hospital in two weeks for the procedure. And she gave Children of Tomorrow a $4,000 donation from FBI agents and other law-enforcement personnel in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area. ``I'm just so glad we could do something - after all they've done for me,'' Bradley said about the Children of Tomorrow. John Hoos, a special agent with the FBI, added: ``Lynnette's just incredible. There should be more people like her.'' The donation brought Chandler to tears. She had been frustrated and worried that the fund-raising game wouldn't bring in enough money. Only about 100 people attended, although about 160 had bought tickets in advance. The game matched up the Woodland Hills Tigers, which is the Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are a professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Tigers have played in Comerica Park. scout team, against a group of players from around the region playing for Children of Tomorrow. Chandler, who says she knows nothing about baseball, wound up staging the event after a volunteer said he wouldn't be able to do it himself. But meeting people, such as the baseball players, is part of Chandler's work work for Children of Tomorrow, which she considers a full-time job. ``In my line of work - my job is to find donors - you meet everybody,'' said Chandler, called a friend by FBI agents, police officers, sheriff's deputies and government officials, as well as neighbors. ``We're there for anybody.'' Chandler, a Camarillo resident, began Children of Tomorrow about 11 years ago, after her daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of aplastic anemia aplastic anemia or anemia of bone-marrow failure Inadequate blood-cell formation by bone marrow. Pancytopenia is the lack of all blood-cell types (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets), but any combination may be missing. , which could be treated with a bone marrow transplant bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. . The nearest place that offered bone-marrow testing then was in Los Angeles, and Chandler knew it would be tough to get locals to drive down there. ``So I brought the first drive to my house,'' Chandler said. ``I tested 45 people. I had them in my living room, my kitchen, . . . everywhere.'' Since then, Children of Tomorrow has tested about 50,000 people, Chandler said. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--color) Lynnette Chandler, left, receives good news and a $4,000 check for a bone-marrow testing program from Trish Bradley of Thousand Oaks, an FBI agent who has leukemia. (2--ran in Conejo edition only) The Woodland Hills Tigers and other volunteers play to raise funds for Children of Tomorrow, a marrow donor program. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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