Word: ayala
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junior circuit's centerfield heirs to the throne. Griffey, who managed 56 home runs and 147 RBI, could only squeak out two hits and a .133 batting average against the Birds. And his vaunted gold glove came up a bit short when Roberto Alomar, predictably enough, welcomed Bobby Ayala from the chamber-of-horrors Seattle bullpen with a shot to the centerfield wall that Junior couldn't quite handle...
...Anissa Ayala, the leukemia-stricken girl whose parents conceived another child in the hope of providing her with a blood-marrow donor, was a hot subject too. What was the news? Among other things, her family's reaction to the NBC movie For the Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story. "I really enjoyed it," Anissa's mother told reporter Kelly Lange. "I cried through the whole movie...
...tremendous success. Girls who started out a bit intimidated ended the day bubbling with enthusiasm over what they had seen. "I've decided to become a graphic designer," declared Lily Seaman, 12. "It gave us a chance to see how it really is in the workplace," said Joann Ayala...
...Ayala family had launched itself upon a sequence of nervy, life-or-death adventures to arrive at that denouement last week. Anissa's leukemia was diagnosed three years ago. In such cases, the patient usually dies within five years unless she receives a marrow transplant. Abe and Mary Ayala, who own a speedometer-repair business, began a nationwide search for a donor whose marrow would be a close match for Anissa's. The search, surrounded by much poignant publicity, failed...
...brave, surreal gamble. First, Abe had to have his vasectomy surgically reversed, a procedure with a success rate of just 40%. That done, Mary Ayala ventured to become pregnant at the age of 43. The odds were 1 in 4 that the baby's bone marrow would match her sister's. The Ayalas won that gamble too. In April 1990 Mary bore a daughter, Marissa. Fetal stem cells were extracted from the umbilical cord and frozen for use along with the marrow in last week's transplant. Then everyone waited for the optimum moment -- the baby had to grow...