While many players have their own charitable organizations, Kalam Mekhar prefers to support local charities that already exist instead. One of the charities that he supports exists to help kids in the foster system find adoptive families. Unfortunately there are a great number of kids in the system that are bounced from foster home to foster home and it is heartbreaking to Kalam and so he is more than happy to support this charity. One of the things the charity does to help raise money is a softball tournament. Like most professional athletes Kalam is pretty good at a lot of sports, but softball is not one of them. He is really bad. But he shows up and plays his heart out anyway, and has a good time doing it. He just accepts that he is probably not winning any trophies, but that's ok. On the plus side, after the tournament is over there is a pie eating contest. Kalam loves pie and has won 3 years in a row.
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