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Insights & Opinions | March 9, 2015

Responding to Josh Hamilton’s relapse

Sports

How do Christians respond after a person we set up as a hero has fallen?

Josh Hamilton (Associated Press/Photo by Jae C. Hong)

In 1999, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays made Josh Hamilton the first overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft. He was an explosive player with a rifle of a throwing arm and the kind of home run power scouts can't help but tell fish stories about. But Hamilton ended up having something else too: a drug and alcohol problem.

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