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Rod Carew joins the effort to find bone-marrow
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story of Lauren, who has battled
e is black; she is white.
He is a man whose grief acute lymphocytic leukemia
weighs heavily on his (ALL) for more than half her life.
heart, a man who She suffered a relapse in April,
promised his dying daughter to around the same time that Mr.
do what he could to save others' Carew lost his daughter
lives. She is a mother of two Michelle to leukemia.
Since blood characteristics are
from Franklin who is passion-
ately heading a massive cam- passed through ethnic and racial
paign to find her friend's little lines, Lauren's best chance at
finding a match is within the
girl a bone-marrow match.
That is where Rod Carew's Jewish community.
Mr. Carew, who converted to
and Hilary King's differences
end. Their lives intersected last Judaism, shared the painful sto-
weekend in an effort to save the ry of his daughter's search for
life of a little girl who belongs to a marrow donor. Ms. Carew
found her match, but it was too
neither of them.
They are working together on late; she had become too ill to
"A Match For T,ife," a tissue typ- have the transplant performed.
"I promised Michelle that I
ing drive to be held next week-
end in the Bingham Farms would do everything possible to
offices of Rock Financial. Their save the lives of those affected
shared goal is to add another with leukemia," Mr. Carew said.
5,000 names to the National "I am paying tribute to
Marrow Donor Registry in a sin- Michelle's memory by educating
and informing people of the
gle, two-day drive.
Another goal is to
locate someone who
has the same tissue
type and is willing
to donate a small
amount of marrow
to give 4-year-old
Lauren Cohn a
chance at life.
"We are just do-
ing the work any
other parent would
do," Ms. King said.
"I would hope an-
other parent would
do that for my
child."
Mr. Carew heard
about the local ef-
forts through
Sparky Anderson,
the former Detroit
Tigers manager
and a family friend
of Hilary King. Mr.
Anderson is the col-
or commentator for
the California An-
gels. Mr. Carew is
the batting coach.
Mr. Carew was
intrigued by the ef-
forts of "A Match
For Life," which is
also seeking to find Lauren Cohn now has Rod Carew on her team.
a marrow match for
2-year-old Coby Levi from Tea- enormous need for bone-marrow
neck, N.J., whose grandparents donors."
A spokesperson for the Na-
live in Oak Park. Mr. Carew
asked Ms. King to meet with tional Marrow Donor Program
him in Cleveland last weekend. confirmed the need. On average,
Mr. Carew first listened to the STEPPING page 12