Atlanta’s Turner Field is a lively place. It’s the home of the Atlanta Braves, where thousands cheer young men playing baseball. But less than a fly ball away from home plate sits another kind of home, a hospice for cancer patients, where much older men and women play out the game of life.

Philip Graitcer has this story about two men whose lives were touched when they crossed the street that separates the hospice and the stadium.

Originally appeared on Georgia Gazette 8/31/07