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Local Report Reveals the 10-Year-Old Fan Who Played Fortnite at Fenway Park

Professional Fortnite streamer Clix teamed up with The Jimmy Fund to game with 10-year-old cancer patient Ramie Darling at the Boston Red Sox's home park.
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Local Report Reveals the 10-Year-Old Fan Who Played Fortnite at Fenway Park
Local Report Reveals the 10-Year-Old Fan Who Played Fortnite at Fenway Park

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A few weeks ago, a mysterious gamer went viral for playing "Fortnite" on the Fenway Park video board.

WBZ News Radio reporter Matt Shearer had the inside scoop on who was grinding towards a Victory Royale at the home of the Boston Red Sox that day, and it turns out it was 10-year-old Ramie Darling.

Darling is a patient at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was diagnosed with Hepatoblastoma – a rare liver cancer – in December 2022, and he ultimately came all the way from Florida to Massachusetts to receive treatment.

Thanks to "The Jimmy Fund Let's Game" initiative, Darling got the chance to play "Fortnite" at Fenway Park with famous YouTube streamer Clix. Other cancer patients were present at the oldest baseball stadium in America for the event as well, as documented by Shearer.

Darling and Clix wound up securing a rare win in the wildly popular survival game that night. While it's hard to know for sure where the other 98 players in their "Fornite" lobby were during the match, it's safe to say no one else was playing on a 62-foot-by-16-foot jumbotron inside an MLB ballpark.

Last summer, Darling met up with New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones as part of another partnership with the Jimmy Fund. He was an honorary captain at the Patriots' preseason game against the Houston Texans on Aug. 10.

The "Jimmy Fund Let's Game" fundraising page can be found online HERE. The goal is to raise $10,000.

The Red Sox – a longtime partner of both Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund – begin their season at Fenway Park against the Baltimore Orioles on April 9.

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Sam Connon
SAM CONNON

Sam Connon is a staff writer covering baseball for “Fastball on SI.’’ He previously covered UCLA Athletics for On SI’s All Bruins site, and is a UCLA graduate, with his work there as a sports columnist receiving awards from the College Media Association and Society of Professional Journalists. Connon also wrote for On SI’s New England Patriots site, Patriots Country, and he was on the Patriots and Boston Red Sox beats at Prime Time Sports Talk. Sam lives in Boston.

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