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Yogi Berra, right, poses with former Yankees shortstop and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto, left, and Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas in 1981. EJA
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Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas, left, poses with Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez and a copy of Lucas' book, "Seeing Home." (Photo courtesy of Ed Lucas)
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Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas poses with 2016 MLB Hall of Fame inductee Ken Griffey Jr. (Photo courtesy of Christopher Lucas)
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From left, Spencer Ross, Ed Lucas and Gene Michael at Ed Lucas golf charity 2015.
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Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas poses with 2016 MLB Hall of Fame inductee Mike Piazza. (Photo courtesy of Christopher Lucas)
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Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas, center, poses with his son, Christopher, left, and former Yankees star Goose Gossage at Yankee Stadium. (Photo courtesy of Ed Lucas) EJA
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Jersey Journal baseball columnist Ed Lucas, right, chats with former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason at the 2013 MLB All-Star Game festivities at Citi Field.
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Jersey Journal columnist sits with pitcher Andrew Miller in the Yankees dugout shortly before he was traded to the Cleveland Indians. (Photo courtesy of Ed Lucas)
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Ed and Allison Lucas are interviewed by the YES Yankees Television Network at the opening of the 2013 Gene Michael Golf Classic for the Ed Lucas Foundation. (Photo by Andrew Richter)
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2013 Gene Michael Golf Classic hosts Ed and Allison Lucas with The Bambino's Bambina, Babe Ruth's granddaughter, Linda Ruth Tosetti, as they work to provide hope, opportunity, and independence for the blind and disabled. (Photo by Andrew Richter)
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Ed Lucas welcomes former NJ Gov. Thomas Kean to the 2013 Gene Michael Golf Classic for the Ed Lucas Foundation. (Photo by Andrew Richter)
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Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
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Ed Lucas, Director of Development & Public Education at St. Joseph's School for the Blind in Jersey City, sits in his office surrounded by Yankees memorabilia, Friday, March 3, 2006. Lucas will be the first man everto be married at the Yankees Stadium home plate on Friday, March 10, 2006. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Ed Lucas, who is blind, and the Director of Development of Public Education at the St. Joseph's School for the Blind in Jersey City and chairman of the golf classic, hits a ball pitched by Tony Ferrara, former batting practice pitcher for the Mets and Yankees, before the start of the 18th Annual Phil Rizzuto Memorial/Gene Michael Celebrity Charity Golf Classic at the Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park, NJ, Monday, August 25, 2008. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Warner Wolf, left, and Jersey Journal baseball columnist Ed Lucas together, circa 1980. (Ed Lucas photo)
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Ed Lucas, a long-time local sports writer and commentator who covers the Yankees, is blind. He gets a batting lesson from reggie Jackson in the 1980's. The Yankees and Seton Hall have established a scholarship in his honor in which they will pay for every strikeout by a Yankee pitcher this season. He poses with some of his memorabilia at St. Joseph's School for the Blind in Jersey City. (Photo courtesy of Bob Lucas)
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Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas, left, poses with New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman as the Ed Lucas Foundation Gene hosted the annual Celebrity Classic and Corey Awards at the Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park on August 22,2016. (Photo courtesy of Andrew Richter)
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Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas poses with MLB slugger Albert Pujols in New York during his days with the St. Louis Cardinals. (Photo courtesy of Ed Lucas)
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Sports columnist Ed Lucas, who won second place for Reporting and Writing - Sports Column in the 2016 NJPA Better Newspaper Contest, is photographed with his certificate during the awards dinner on April 20, 2017, at the Hamilton Manor in Hamilton. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Jersey Journal baseball columnist Ed Lucas, right, with WWE wrestler "The Big Show" at a Yankees game.
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Jersey Journal columnist Ed Lucas opens the dinner portion of the 2017 Gene Michael Golf Classic for the Ed Lucas Foundation as honorary chair and former New Yankees executive Gene Michael looks on at Brooklake Country Club, Florham Park last month. (Photo courtesy of Zoop Photo | Ed Lucas Foundation)
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Ed Lucas, a long-time local sports writer and commentator who covers the Yankees, is blind. The Yankees and Seton Hall have established a scholarship in his honor in which they will pay for every strikeout by a Yankee pitcher this season. He poses with some of his memorabilia at St. Joseph's School for the Blind in Jersey City. (Jennifer Brown | The Star-Ledger)
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Sports columnist Ed Lucas, who won second place for Reporting and Writing - Sports Column in the 2016 NJPA Better Newspaper Contest, is photographed with his son Chris and wife Allison during the awards dinner on April 20, 2017, at the Hamilton Manor in Hamilton. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)
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Newlyweds Allison and Ed Lucas kiss after they took their vows on the field of Yankee Stadium Friday, March 10, 2006 in the Bronx borough of New York. It was a first for the stadium where the knot has been tied in the clubhouse and monument park, but never before on the actual field. (Stephen Chernin | AP Photo)
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Newlyweds Allison and Ed Lucas pose for photographers in the New York Yankee dugout in Yankee Stadium after they took their vows, Friday, March 10, 2006 in the Bronx borough of New York. It was a first for the stadium where the knot has been tied in the clubhouse and monument park, but never before on the actual field. (Stephen Chernin | AP Photo)
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Newlyweds Allison, right, and Ed Lucas pose for photographers on the field of Yankee Stadium after they took their vows, Friday, March 10, 2006, in the Bronx borough of New York. It was a first for the stadium where the knot has been tied in the clubhouse and monument park, but never before on the actual field. (Stephen Chernin | AP Photo)
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Bride Allison Lucas, left, nee Pheifle, is escorted through the seats to the field of Yankee Stadium to take her vows with Ed Lucas, Friday, March 10, 2006, in the Bronx borough of New York. It was a first for the stadium where the knot has been tied in the clubhouse and monument park, but never before on the actual field. (Stephen Chernin | AP Photo)
