MCWS 2024: How Kirby Connell became beloved in Tennessee - ESPN
OMAHA, Nebraska — Jesse James Pulley started his first round of chemotherapy the day the ballplayers visited. The 9-year-old had just been diagnosed with Stage III Burkitt lymphoma, and everything was new and terrifying. Upon hearing the news of her son's cancer a week earlier, Leann Pulley blacked out.


