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Letters from Detroit Tigers spring training: Stirring the pot in Lakeland

Detroit Tigers pitcher Matthew Boyd and wife, Ashley, weren't looking for this cause. But ending sex slavery in Uganda has become their mission. Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press

Free Press sports writer Anthony Fenech is chronicling his fifth spring training on the Detroit Tigers beat with Letters from Lakeland, which will be published on Freep.com every Monday morning this spring. Read previous letters here, here, here and here.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Dear Mom,

She wasn’t at Linkster’s last Sunday night and neither was a man named “Bro,” who I was told I should ask for the next time I went in, but there was another man, probably pushing 60, who sat there, staring straight ahead at hockey highlights, unaffected by my presence.