Sick 4-year-old Massachusetts boy drafted to college baseball team

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He's only 4-years old, but a Massachusetts boy has already been drafted to a college baseball team.

WORCESTER, Mass. -- He's only 4-years-old, but a Massachusetts boy has already been drafted to a college baseball team.



Ari Schultz was drafted to Assumption College's baseball team in Worcester Wednesday.



Ari has congestive heart failure.



He's had three open-heart surgeries, two before he was even born.



His parents say his zest for life and a love of baseball keeps him smiling.



One reporter told Ari, "You've got quite the arm. Who taught you how to do that?"



"No one. I just teach myself how to throw it that far," Ari said.



His parents hope he'll see a real draft someday.

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