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UrbScotty

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Fri Jul 18, 2014, 11:49 PM Jul 2014

Woman, 105, to throw out first pitch at Padres game

Agnes McKee has been warming up for a couple months now, grabbing a baseball in her right hand, propping herself up against her walker and tossing the ball underhand to a staff member from the San Diego-area retirement community she calls home.

Her big day will come Sunday, when McKee steps on the field at Petco Park and throws the first pitch at the San Diego Padres game. No matter how close she gets the ball to the plate or whether it's a strike, McKee certainly won't get any boos.

She's not 50 cent. She's 105 — as in years old.

Her Oceanside retirement community, Fairwinds, had planned an outing a few months ago to Sunday's Padres game. One of the staff members at Fairwinds asked if McKee, their oldest resident, could toss the first pitch since it would be just a few days after her 105th birthday, which was Wednesday.


http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/big-league-stew/agnes-mckee--105-years-old--will-throw-out-the-first-pitch-at-padres-game-181756368.html
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