For Cardinals’ Tommy Pham, void left by imprisoned father one hurdle in career full of them

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2017/06/15/cardinals-tommy-pham-father-prison/401048001/

Pham, who has swung a hot bat since he was recalled from Memphis, smacks a HR at Baltimore’s Camden Yards. (USA Today photo)

ST. LOUIS, MO – (Bob Nightengale, USA Today.  Please click on the link above to read the full story.  Here is an excerpt.)

NOTE:  This was published in USA Today last weekend.  I did not read it until yesterday.  It is a very good article.  Even if you are not a sports fan, it is a very good read.

It’s Father’s Day this weekend, a time when hundreds of Major League Baseball players will be calling their fathers, expressing their gratitude and telling them how much they love them.

It will be nothing more than another day on the calendar for St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Tommy Pham. The only significance on this day is that the Cardinals will be playing an interleague game at Camden Yards against the Baltimore Orioles

Pham has a biological father. He just doesn’t know him.

They met twice.

Each time he was behind bars.

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