From an
award-winning
documentary
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To a multi-generational hero's journey movement.
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Third Base World Premiere is a smash at the World Parkinson's Congress 2026
What began in 2004 as a father-son baseball road trip has become a singular 22-year longitudinal portrait of Parkinson’s, family, aging, resilience, and endurance.
More than a film series, Boys of Summer is now a growing movement using research, storytelling, community, and the work of our 501(c)3 nonprofit, Yes, And…X, as its fiscal sponsor. We transform isolation into connection, helping families and communities of people face Parkinson’s — and life itself — together.
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A Boys of Summer-inspired film by Jon & Jon Chace.
Back when Jon Chace was a kid, he and his father planned a baseball trip together. After a little research Jon looked at his dad and said, "this trip's expensive!" They never took it.
Decades later, Jon Sr. was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He saw Boys of Summer: Short Stop thanks to Wendy Palmer. Not long after, the father and son decided it was time.
Five ballparks. Six days. One trip they'd been waiting decades to take. Then they did something we never expected: they made their own film.
While there is baseball, road trip and multi-generational storytelling, their story is their own created independently and shared here with their permission, inspired by Boys of Summer.
Perhaps that's the best measure of what this journey has become: One story inspiring another.
Boys of Summer
The Hero's Journey
Experience the Journey
Boys of Summer: The Hero’s Journey is an immersive, adapatable storytelling experience for your next symposium, conference, or convention. We explore more than two decades of Parkinson’s, family, resilience, and enduring love through the lens of the Hero’s Journey framework.
Combining film clips, doctoral research, storytelling, audience discussion, Cinema Therapy, improvisation, and interactivity, these programs create powerful opportunities for healthcare empathy training, academic engagement, support-group connection, and community dialogue.
Storytelling is foundational to healing, understanding, and living our best. Dr. Cochrane will help you discover, delve into, and share your story. Let's amplify our voices to accelerate the cure.
