Here’s a sports story from ESPN that’s not about some professional player shooting up horse urine in order to put baseballs into orbit, it’s not about a football player kicking dogs or beating his wife, or a golfer cheating on his wife, and it’s not about some bowler who let himself get a little out of shape (because that would never happen).
This story is about a minor league baseball player with good prospects who has left baseball to join the seminary. ESPN has the story:
As a top prospect for the Oakland Athletics, outfielder Grant Desme might’ve gotten the call every minor leaguer wants this spring.
Instead, he believed he had another, higher calling.
Desme announced Friday that he was leaving baseball to enter the priesthood, walking away after a breakout season in which he became MVP of the Arizona Fall League.
“I was doing well at ball. But I really had to get down to the bottom of things,” the 23-year-old Desme said. “I wasn’t at peace with where I was at.”
A lifelong Catholic, Desme thought about becoming a priest for about a year and a half. He kept his path quiet within the sports world, and his plan to enter a seminary this summer startled the A’s when he told them Thursday night.
General manager Billy Beane “was understanding and supportive,” Desme said, but the decision “sort of knocked him off his horse.” After the talk, Desme felt “a great amount of peace.”
Check out ESPN for the rest of the story.
It’s kinda’ nice to have a nice sports story once in a while.
