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It’s not unusual to see a Major League player who dedicates time and money to a cause close to his heart. But when that player has been committed to that cause since he was in high school, that stands out.

Royce Lewis , the 26-year-old third baseman for the Twins, has been giving time and more recently raising money for The Jessie Rees Foundation , more commonly known as NEGU (“never, ever give up”) since he was a 15-year-old playing baseball at JSerra Catholic High School in Southern California. Since the first time he heard about the organization and

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