BATON ROUGE — Nine members of the LSU baseball team paid a visit Monday to the Denham Springs home of Jeremiah Foster, a young man born with partial limbs on each of his extremities. Jeremiah recently had to undergo surgery to have most of his legs amputated and has been home from the hospital for approximately four weeks.
The operation will give Jeremiah the opportunity to be fitted for prosthetics on his legs.
“Jeremiah is a young man who has had to overcome a great deal of adversity, and our players wanted to let him know how much we care about him,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “The players felt it was important to spend some time with him and brighten up his day.”
Players making the visit to Jeremiah’s home included Micah Gibbs, Buzzy Haydel, Leon Landry, Nolan Cain, Paul Bertuccini, Ben Alsup, Beau Didier, Matty Ott and Grant Dozar.
Community service is one of the cornerstones of the LSU baseball program. The Tigers logged 345 hours of community service work during the 2007-08 academic year, the most last season by any of the LSU men’s sports programs.
Earlier this fall, the Tigers participated in the ALS Walk to promote awareness of Lou Gehrig’s Disease and the Buddy Walk to promote acceptance of people with Down Syndrome. LSU players also appeared at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk in October.