A Deaf Boy Met His Favorite Team's Mascot, And The Interaction Will Melt Your Heart

June 4, 2014

The Samworth family was already riding high when they arrived at a Dayton Dragons baseball game — they had free tickets, and they knew it would be a blast. What they didn't realize was that a friendly guy in a dragon mascot costume was about to make their day unforgettable.

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"The smile on his face was ear to ear," Hunter's father remembers. "I couldn't even speak. I was just in awe. I was like, this is something that he's going to remember for the rest of his life."

He managed to catch a good chunk of the encounter in a video that he posted on YouTube.