Jonathan Newton/Washington Post
Ron Harper speaks with his youngest son most every day, and on the evening of June 13, Bryce Harper sounded tired. The Washington Nationals had finished a road trip through Boston and Toronto, during which Harper put on one of the most devastating hitting stretches by a teenager on record. On the phone with his father, baseball was not on his mind. “I can’t wait to go home, Pop,” Harper said.
The casual reference gave Ron Harper pause. Home? Home had always been Las Vegas, the city...
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