Baseball was Wong’s sport while he attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Kamehameha Hawaii High School in Hilo, Hawaii. The St. Louis Cardinals selected Wong in the first round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft, and two years later he was promoted to the major leagues.
Wong became a free agent for the first time in his career in the summer of 2020 after the Cardinals rejected his player option for the 2021 season. He then signed up with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Kolen “Kaha” Wong, a former collegiate baseball player at USC and two-year Class-A minor leaguer with the Reno Silver Sox, is the father of Kolten Wong.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship star and mixed martial artist B. J. Penn was friends with Kolten Wong, whose father, Jay Dee Penn, made friends with Kaha Wong.
Kaha Wong could instruct children in bat swinging at a facility owned by the Penns. Kolten’s paternal great-grandparents were of Chinese descent.
He has always supported the Atlanta Braves. Wong practiced his baseball swing daily in a batting cage and hacked down trees with an ax for two hours each day to increase his strength.
He participated in the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, Maryland, where he helped his team, Pacific Southwest, win.
The elder Wong decided to raise his family in Hilo, Hawaii, despite playing 157 games and hitting.280. He became well-known in Hawaii for coaching baseball.
He chose whatever job would allow him to spend the most time teaching Kolten the game and the value of working out, which he emphasized on a daily basis, over having a solid profession.
Kolten Wong was removed from the paternity list. On Saturday, he and his wife Alissa gave birth to a boy they called Kash Kaha.