TAMPA, Fla. — When Aaron Hicks was 10, already busy collecting golf trophies on some of the same courses that Tiger Woods had grown up on, his friends asked him to play Little League with them. So Hicks asked his father for permission.
Joseph Hicks had always tried to keep Aaron, his youngest son, away from baseball, putting a golf club in his hands at an early age and doing his best to keep it there. Joseph Hicks knew from his seven years as a minor leaguer and another playing in Mexico that baseball was bound to deliver disappointment.