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Cubs’ Kris Bryant prefers baby talk over baseball as he returns home for weekend

LAS VEGAS — Kris Bryant’s dad, Mike, wasn’t only a professional baseball player who taught his sons how to hit. He also played guitar for a band he and his friends started, called Looking Back, which was good enough to get paid gigs around town.

“His buddies still come to Vegas once or twice a year and, in our [batting] cage, just blast the music,” Kris said.

Mike doesn’t have the same long rock-star hair that he used to. But the old man can still play a little.

“Don’t tell him I said it,” Kris said, “but he’s pretty good.