The holiday season is one that is characterized by a time of warmth and family and drinking hot cocoa before a roaring fire. Unfortunately, the cynical side of us can often focus instead on the darker, meaner sides of it, like all those Black Friday sales gone awry. Fortunately, there are still plenty of stories of goodness out there.

Enter Marty, a Mariners fan. When he heard that Seattle-based artist Keegan Hall's sister, who suffers from cerebral palsy among other issues, was a massive fan of Ichiro's, he got an idea. After all, he had a bat of Ichiro's that he won at auction and knew just who could use it.

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