PASADENA, Calif. -- Slugging three homers in a pennant clincher was Enrique Hernandez's most memorable impact on the Dodgers' 2017 season, but he started '18 trying to make an even greater impact on the world.
Hernandez rode on the City of Hope float in Monday's Tournament of Roses Parade to raise awareness for cancer research. He was joined on the float by two notable cancer survivors -- his father, Enrique Sr., and former Dodgers general manager Fred Claire.
Dr. Stephen J. Forman is in his fourth decade of service at the City of Hope, a not-for-profit clinical research center, hospital and graduate medical school that treated Claire and set up a treatment program for the senior Hernandez, who had bone marrow cancer and lives in Puerto Rico.