Former MLB player Adam LaRoche

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Adam walked away from his $13 million contract to play for the Chicago White Sox this year due to the team no longer allowing (or perhaps just limiting) his teenage son in the clubhouse. But there is more to the man than just walking away from the dough, which people just raked him for doing.

Article quotes ESPN?s Tim Keown:

LaRoche, along with Brewers pitcher Blaine Boyer, spent 10 days in November in Southeast Asian brothels, wearing a hidden camera and doing undercover work to help rescue underage sex slaves. All of which raises a question: After 12 years in the big leagues, the endless days and nights in dugouts and clubhouses, how did LaRoche?s nearly cinematic level of nonconformity escape detection?

? Working through a nonprofit called the Exodus Road, LaRoche and Boyer conducted surveillance in brothels and tried to determine the age of the girls ? known only by numbers pinned to bikinis ? and identify their bosses.

?Something huge happened there for us,? Boyer says. ?You can?t explain it. Can?t put your finger on it. If you make a wrong move, you?re getting tossed off a building. We were in deep, man, but that?s the way it needed to be done. Adam and I truly believe God brought us there and said, ?This is what I have for you boys.??

Adam LaRoche Quit Baseball To Follow His Faith, But What He Won?t Say Is Heartbreaking

Kudos to LaRoche.