Karen Moyer says. As the driving force behind the nation’s largest collection of child bereavement camps, she should know. She has seen the positive effects of closure firsthand every summer. Walking away from the game in July was a loss of sorts for her husband, though it was hardly as traumatic as the loss Karen is used to counseling. Still, it was the likely end of something big—likely because Jamie hadn’t decided that he was absolutely, positively retired yet. But Karen knows that if it is the end, it needs to be marked appropriately, and so she does what Karen does: she goes all-out and throws a “Moyer Foundation Roast & Toast” to honor “Number 50 Turning 50.”Nearly two hundred guests flock to Las Vegas’s MGM Grand for a dinner, fund-raiser, and good-natured roast of Moyer, who sits on the stage—often with Mac or Grady perched on his lap—and takes abuse from a who’s who of the baseball world.Chase Utley regales the crowd with tales of the lengths Moyer would go in order to pitch.
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