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<a href="/biography/anthony-rizzo">Anthony Vincent Rizzo</a> was born on August 8, 1989 in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is of Italian descent - His family originated in the Sicilian town of Ciminna. Anthony has an older brother John, who was a sportsman much like his brother, and even played for the Florida Atlantic University football team on the lineman position. Anthony is also currently engaged to his girlfriend Emily Vakos to who he proposed on june 1, 2017 - they met during the cubs training sessions in arizona in spring 2016. Anthony currently resides in Chicago, Illinois

He graduated Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In 2007 he was involved in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft by the Red Sox team. After graduating, he enrolled in the Florida Atlantic University and studied there prior to signing a contract with The Red Sox which included a $325,000 signing bonus. Since that time he has played for the Greenville Drive, Gulf Coast League Red Sox, Salem Red Sox as well as for the Portland Sea Dogs, all of which are sponsored by the red sox organization

Anthony is an incredibly private <a href="/biography/anthony-rizzo">person</a> and as a result very little information on him is publicly available -  most of what is known is due to his sports teammates occasionally accidentally revealing information as well as the occasional interview in which Anthony participates - on february 14, 2018 a mass shooting had occured at stoneman douglas high school from which he had graduated, this had affected him on a personal level due to having actually been there - he gave an emotional speech at the vigil for the victims of the shooting on february 15 2018. during the speech he attributed who he was to the community in stoneman douglas high school and stated that stoneman douglas community is not alone in this and there are many others that have been similarly affected and they will make it through and become stronger for it.

Nevertheless despite Anthony being a privacy minded <a href="/biography/anthony-rizzo">individual</a> he does maintain a twitter, instagram and a facebook account personally and can be contacted there directly.

He began his professional career in the Major League Baseball by playing for the San Diego Padres team. He had a good reputation as the best power-hitting prospect in the Minor League for the Red Sox. He finally made his debut for The Padres in the 2011 during the game against the Washington Nationals team where he hit a triple and scored a run - leading to Padres scoring a 7-3 victory. The next year he was traded to the Chicago Cubs team along with Zach Cates. He played this season with the Triple-A Iowa Cubs where he once more excelled in the minor leagues, batting .342 average with 23 home runs and 62 RBIs prior to being recalled by the cubs on june 26. in 2013 Anthony signed a 7 year contract worth $41 million with the Cubs and was later named as their finalist for the National Heart and Hustle Award - he was also named the Cubs finalist for the Roberto Clemente Award.

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In 2014 he had his fifth multi-homer game on may 30, and had his second career walk-off home run on june 6. Anthony was later voted by the fans into the all-star game, along with <a href="/biography/chris-sale">Chris Sale</a> who was a White Sox <a href="/biography/chris-sale">pitcher</a> at the time. He also joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlin_Castro">Starlin Castro</a> in as a teammate in Minneapolis' all star game. In july of that year Anthony won his very first player of the week award and by mid september he had become the youngest player to receive the Branch Rickey Award as a "strong role model for young people".

In april 2018 Anthony was placed on the disabled list by the Cubs for the first time in his professional career due to a back injury, Anthony believes he can overcome it with training and exercise and should be recovered by the start of the next season.

In April 2008 he was diagnosed with a limited state classical Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 18. After going through chemotherapy for six months, on september 2nd 2008 his doctor was convinced e was in remission and told him as much - even though Rizzo had six more weeks of treatment left to go through as well as some follow-up testing to ensure everything was in order. On november 18 2008 anthony was finally told by his physician that he could live a normal life once more - he had beat cancer.  Anthony's experience with cancer led to him opening the "Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation" in 2012 - a non profit organization dedicated to raising money for cancer research and providing support for families whose members have cancer. The foundation is entirely run by his family, friends and a management team - Anthony is there in a leadership role to oversee and has a final say in the decisions. In august 2017 The foundation had donated $3.5 million to the Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago - a hospital which he visits monthly to meet various groups there to provide them moral support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm3q14hgXYE - Rizzo's speech at the vigil for the victims of parkland shooting.

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