Amazing: Kid Who Received Double Hand Transplant at CHOP Throws Out First Pitch at Orioles Game
Tonight, Zion Harvey, the first child in the world to undergo a bilateral hand transplant, threw the first pitch.https://t.co/wuk5Qsr90Q
— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) August 3, 2016
Last August, we told you about Zion Harvey. Harvey, then 8, had been released from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after a successful double hand transplant. It was the first-ever hand transplant performed on a child.
He’s recovered quite well in the year since that surgery. Nine-year-old Harvey last night threw out the first pitch at the Orioles game at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
“Zion Harvey is a trooper,” Orioles center fielder Adam Jones told the team’s website. “And the pitch he threw I might’ve chased.”
Zion Harvey underwent the bilateral hand transplant procedure at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia last summer pic.twitter.com/7cAtLtEGMB
— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) August 3, 2016
Harvey lives in Owings Mills, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore.
