Former Angels draft decide Bobby Jenks helped the Chicago White Sox win the 2005 World Collection.
Twenty years later, the 44-year-old and his household want some assist.
Jenks has been identified with Stage 4 adenocarcinoma, a type of abdomen most cancers. As well as, the household misplaced its house within the Palisades hearth.
Jenks is collaborating in a non-public memorabilia-signing occasion organized by PastPros. The cash raised will go towards serving to the former nearer who compelled the Houston Astros’ Orlando Palmeiro into hitting a game-ending groundout Oct. 26, 2005, to finish the White Sox’s 88-year championship drought.
“As many will have heard, former White Sox closer Bobby Jenks has been diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer (after losing his home in the LA fires),” PastPros posted Wednesday on Instagram.
“To help Bobby and his family with medical costs, we have arranged an in-person private signing with him. All profits will be given to the Jenks family.”
Followers are requested to ship the gadgets they want to have signed (playing cards, images, balls or jerseys) to an deal with supplied on the PastPros web site by March 25. The gadgets might be signed by Jenks in Portugal — the place he, his spouse and two of his six kids are at present dwelling — and returned by mail.
PastPros additionally introduced that former Dodgers pitcher Darren Dreifort is donating his proceeds from an identical signing occasion to Jenks and his household.
The Jenks household, by way of PastPros, declined to remark for this text.
Born in Mission Hills, Jenks later attracted the eye of baseball scouts as a hard-throwing teenager on an American Legion staff in North Idaho. After graduating from Inglemoor Excessive College in Kenmore, Wash., in 2000, Jenks was chosen by the Angels within the fifth spherical of that summer time’s draft.
Jenks spent a lot of the following a number of years coping with accidents and was designated for project after the 2004 season. He was claimed by the White Sox and made his first MLB begin in July. In October, he appeared in all 4 World Collection video games throughout Chicago’s sweep of Houston, giving up three hits and two earned runs with seven strikeouts and two walks over 5 innings pitched.
Jenks performed six seasons with the White Sox, incomes All-Star nods in 2006 and 2007, then one season with the Boston Purple Sox earlier than his profession ended after he underwent emergency surgical procedure on his backbone to repair a spinal fluid leak that brought on a serious an infection.
Jenks was in Crestfield, Ailing., managing the Windy Metropolis Thunderbolts unbiased skilled baseball staff when the Palisades hearth hit. He had his World Collection ring with him on the time, Jenks instructed MLB.com in February, however all the opposite tangible reminiscences of his baseball profession are gone.
“I’ve got one suitcase left to my name,” Jenks stated. “It’s all gone. Everything else I’ve ever done. … All those things are irreplaceable.”
Former White Sox nearer Bobby Jenks on returning to U.S. Mobile.
He added that he has each intention of having the ability to handle the Windy Metropolis staff once more this 12 months, in addition to attend the White Sox’s 20-year World Collection reunion in July.
“Now it’s time to do what I got to do to get myself better and get myself more time, however you want to look at it,” stated Jenks, whose household moved to Portugal to be nearer to his spouse’s household. “I’ll tell you one thing: I’m not going to die here in Portugal.”
