SAN FRANCISCO - Players with the San Francisco Giants put on their jerseys, but not for a regularly scheduled game Friday. Instead, they went just a few blocks away from the ballpark, to play ball with a very special group of courageous kids.

"I kind of got excited," Stephen Ramirez of Antioch said, as he held a ball and hat autographed by the Giants players.

The event brought big league players with big hearts to meet with UCSF pediatric patients at Family House, a home base for families who have children getting treatment at UCSF, who live more than 50 miles away from San Francisco.

" Family House is a pediatric guest house. We've been around since 1981, and we're serving families whose children have cancer and other life-threatening illnesses," Katherine Thompson, CEO of Family

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