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'Big hug, started to cry': Diamondbacks 1B Kevin Cron gets big-league call up news from father

(Photo: Tom R. Smedes)

SAN FRANCISCO – Kevin Cron received the news he had been dreaming about since childhood. Only he never imagined who would be delivering it.

Cron was called to the big leagues by the Diamondbacks on Thursday, and his dad, Triple-A Reno manager Chris Cron, happened to be the one to tell him.

“I ran it through my head hundreds of times growing up about how it would happen and none of those hundred ever included my dad being the one to tell me,” Kevin Cron said from Oracle Park on Friday, his first day in the major leagues.