A common regret baseball players have is not seeing their children grow up. Adam LaRoche’s decision to walk absent from the White Sox is understandableIf we are going to shake our heads and cluck our tongues at athletes and celebrities who abandon their children,hardly seeing them for years, then it is impossible to criticize Adam LaRoche for wanting his son near him every day.
Anyone who has been around baseball in recent seasons has undoubtedly arrive across Drake LaRoche. He was the blonde-haired sixth-grader in Washington’s clubhouse during the Nationals playoff runs, and sliding in step with Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg. He seemed at ease amid the big leaguers,spending his childhood the way most kids wish they could: by their dad’s side at work.
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Source: theguardian.com