How Facebook, A Baseball Team And An Organ Donation Connected 2 Philadelphia Families Forever

CBS Philadelphia

April 28, 2025

A local high school baseball team helped one of their own find a new chance at life through the gift of organ donation.

"It's a miracle how it happened," said John Derenzi, who received a kidney transplant.

Derenzi, an alumni board member of Saints Neumann Goretti High School in South Philadelphia, was diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure and needed a new kidney.

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