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MLB Spring Training 2012: NY Yankees’ Joe Girardi Makes Grieving Fan’s Day

an away spring training game in Clearwater, Fla., New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi made a thoughtful gesture that a grieving fan will never forget.

Behind the first-base dugout was a man holding a large white poster loaded with photographs and words that said, "Please remember Steven E. Smith."

Girardi knew that this was something very different, so he climbed up on a bench to ask the man holding the sign what it meant.

The man holding the sign was Matthew Smith. His son was a huge Yankees fan and was killed in a motor vehicle accident in December 2010 at the age of 24.

Girardi must have felt a heaviness in his heart as he listened to Mr. Smith talk about his son and that terrible day.

Mr. Smith was wearing ...

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