Local song brings Kensing back home
Published 4/12/2008 by Joe Frisaro at Major League Baseball News
Each visit to Houston gives Marlins reliever Logan Kensing a chance to relish his Texas roots. And during each seventh-inning stretch at Minute Maid Park, Kensing can't help but crack a smile when he hears the loudspeakers crank up "Deep in the Heart of Texas."
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