Official Site of the Diamondbacks · May 23, 2016
Memory of friend helps drive Lamb
D-backs third baseman Jake Lamb has a custom message on his glove to remember his late friend, Josh Dickerson.PITTSBURGH -- Josh Dickerson has been gone for almost four years, a life taken far too early by rhabdomyosarcoma, rare form of cancer. But Dickerson is never far from Jake Lamb's thoughts.
The D-backs third baseman has JD2 (2 was Dickerson's high school number) stitched into his glove where most players have their own names. On Lamb's wrist is a silicon band with the same abbreviation, along with the words Courage + Belief = Life.
Lamb first met Dickerson through his sister, Megan, who met Dickerson in a support group she was in after battling leukemia.