Make*A* Wish: Takes local player to the Big Leagues

When most of us hear, "Make a Wish!," it's right before we blow out the candles on the awesome cake our parents worked on all night (or spent money to hire a more talented baker to bake). Either way, it's a joyous time, celebrating the prospect of another year of life, surrounded by family and friends, learning and growing and dreaming that anything is possible.

But some kids hear those words for a different reason. Children diagnosed with critical illnesses sometimes struggle to keep fighting, when all they want to do is be a kid, and in Baylor Skelton's words, "play ball like Chipper Jones."...