HAMMONTON, N.J. - A young Phillies fan is giving new meaning to the phrase Ring the Bell, as he marks the end of his years-long battle with cancer.
9-year-old Frankie Lasasso, of Hammonton, rang the bell at Wednesday night’s Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park, celebrating his last chemo treatment for leukemia on a night he won’t forget."You’re so excited for him and the emotion of it all," dad Frank Lasasso said. "I don’t know if it’s really hit, yet."176 family and friends wore special t-shirts that read "Frankie says ring the bell" and packed the stands for his big day."His friends were out of their minds.
They were so thrilled to celebrate with him. When we were down on the third baseline, you could hear them all the way down on the right field line, how loud they were, yelling and screaming," Lasasso explained.Frankie is on the shy side, but his smile says it all.
His mom, Tiffany, felt the emotion of his battle against cancer finally coming to an end."You see him finally done with the hardest thing he’ll, hopefully, have to do in his life, just being a kid, but also getting that opportunity to do all those fun things yesterday," Tiffany Lasasso said.Frankie was diagnosed in December of 2020, with 856 days of chemotherapy, IV, oral, injectable.