![]() I think the 24 hour news cycle has the most to do with it. On why so many Americans feel so disconnected from each other, and how music can heal those divisions: I get asked a lot of times, ‘How could you have a relationship with your dad after all those years? When you guys were growing up without much money and he was making millions of dollars playing ball.how could you have any sort of affection for him?’ It made me think that I could do something with my life, knowing that I had that blood in me. And then I never saw him again until I was 18 years old. I got to meet him once, and he never acknowledged being my dad at that point. And, I mean, any 11 year old kid finding out your dad’s a professional baseball player, it’s kind of exciting. ![]() I called her at work and she came home and told me all about it. And then McGraw was scratched out and above it was Smith written in cursive handwriting. When I was 11, I was going through my mom’s closet looking for something and ran across my birth certificate and it had McGraw on it. And so I guess I was listening to country music from the time I was old enough to even crawl around in a playpen. In this little town of Rayville, La., at this bus stop. And I don’t remember this, but when she was a young single mom at 19 years old, she had me in a playpen right beside the jukebox. She worked at a Trailways bus station at the restaurant. And her family sort of shipped her off to Louisiana to go stay with cousins, and I was born in Louisiana. So she didn’t graduate high school because she was pregnant with me. So I became what they called a “grapefruit league baby” back in the day. He was playing minor league baseball in Florida. I’m sure it was tough for She got pregnant somewhere in her senior year of high school. On what it meant to find out that his real father was baseball player Tug McGraw: You can listen to the full episode in the player above, but here are a handful of excerpts from our conversation, which have been condensed and edited for clarity. Tune in every Thursday, and join us as we continue to explore the minds that shape our world.
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