Fireside chat with Dusty Baker

Alison and Christopher Porter and Delia and Jim Stroud were among the nearly 900 guests at the Hilton Americas Houston for a fireside chat with Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker. A cancer survivor and baseball legend, Baker was the guest of honor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s A Conversation with a Living Legend, and participated in a fireside chat with Todd Kalas, the voice of the Astros. The event was chaired by MD Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors members Don Sinclair, T. Mark Kelly, and Bob Gwin, and raised more than $1.5 million for cancer research and patient programs at MD Anderson. The guests, armed with rally towels, enjoyed hearing Baker’s thoughts on everything from being on deck when Hank Aaron broke the home-run record to his own musical interests to taking Spanish lessons. After the fireside chat, supporters watched a tribute video with interviews from the Toronto Blue Jays’ announcer Buck Martinez and philanthropist Billye Aaron, wife of the late Hank Aaron, and had photo opportunities with the Commissioner’s trophy.

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