Grant Desme, a top Oakland A's prospect, gives up baseball for

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Go-Ems.comDesme retires to pursue priesthoodMLB.comOAKLAND -- The A's announced Friday that Grant Desme, recently named the club's eighth-best pros
Grant Desme, one of the Oakland A's top outfield prospects and the scourge of the Arizona Fall League, is putting his career aside in order to join the priesthood, reports Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. Good for him.