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ANAHEIM -- It started last season, when Angels catcher Logan O'Hoppe thought it would be fun to have patients from Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach sign his chest protector and wear it as part of MLB Players’ Weekend .

It went so well that O’Hoppe did it again, meeting with roughly a dozen patients on Aug. 5 and having nine of them draw pictures on his gray-colored chest protector. He’ll wear it when MLB again celebrates Players’ Weekend this weekend when the Angels play the Athletics.

“It was great,” O’Hoppe said. “It was similar to last year . I think it came out better. I think just going ther

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