7/8/2008: Joliet, IL—Miracle League Enables Child with CMT to Play

Also thankful to the league is Alvin Sizemore Jr.

"Of course you feel a little bit sad when sometimes you'll other kids running around and playing and you think, 'Why can't my kid do that and get to play like all the other kids get to play,'" Sizemore said.

Sizemore's son, Lawson, 5, has Charcot Marie Tooth disorder which wreaks havoc on Lawson's nervous system, hindering his ability to use the muscles in his hands and feet.

But the disorder can't touch Lawson's passion for baseball.

"Oh, he loves it," Alvin Sizemore Jr. said. "He is one of those kids who loves baseball. I mean that's all he wants to do. When I get home from work we have to play ball every night just about, so the Miracle League lets him get out there and play just like at the big leagues."

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