Watch: Rizzo gets emotional after donating $3.5M to children's cancer center

Anthony Rizzo was moved to tears Tuesday as the Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago honored the Cubs first baseman and his charity organization for their $3.5-million donation made to the hospital in May.

In honor of the donation, the hospital announced it had renamed the 18th floor waiting room after the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation.

"To be able to give back, to do this type of work, is so much bigger than a World Series and doing anything on a baseball field just because my family's been through it, there's so many families going through it," Rizzo said, according to the Chicago Tribune's Phil Thompson. "This is as real as it gets in life."

Rizzo, of course, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma as an 18-year-old in April 2008, for which he underwent six months of chemotherapy before being informed in September his cancer was in remission. Along with his family Rizzo then founded the non-profit organization four years later to raise money for cancer research and support children and their families fighting the disease.