The week's good news: September 6, 2018

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1. Father-daughter duo spends summer visiting every MLB ballpark

Emily Thompson may not be the world's biggest baseball fan, but she does love her dad, and that's why she spent the summer traveling 13,000 miles with him in a quest to visit all 30 Major League Baseball parks. Danny Thompson recently had a heart attack, and Emily knew she wanted to take him on some sort of an adventure. "My main goal was to spend time with him," she told KGO-TV. He used to always talk about seeing all the ballparks, Emily said, so she planned a trip around that dream, with Danny choosing AT&T Park in San Francisco as the final stop for sentimental reasons. "I used to go to Candlestick Park with my dad, and the Giants were my favorite team," he said of the old stadium. Danny told KGO-TV he and Emily are now closer than ever. "It was a good bonding experience," he said.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.