A Baseball Family's American Dream, And Unbearable Loss
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
From the time he started playing baseball, Sang Ho Baek told his parents that he was going to become a famous pitcher, and would buy them a house someday. Then, after the family moved to the U.S. and Sang began blossoming as a player, his dream seemed within reach. But now the family is trying to bear the weight of a terrible tragedy -- and is looking for answers.
Read Stephen Nesbitt's story about Sang Ho Baek:
https://theathletic.com/2837568/2021/09/22/his-name-is-sang-he-is-a-pitcher-a-familys-american-dream-their-unbearable-loss/
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| 0:56.0 | Every year thousands of families come to the United States to pursue a dream. |
| 1:00.0 | Today, the Athletic Stephen Nespit has the story of a baseball family whose dream has now ended in loss and a search for answers. |
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| 1:19.0 | So Stephen, you recently published this really powerful story about a young man named Songho Bach, |
| 1:24.0 | or sang as his family calls him. First, can you tell us a little about the family's journey to come to America? |
| 1:31.0 | Absolutely. To understand sang story, you have to start with his parents. His dad, Songho Han, |
| 1:39.0 | he visited the United States from Seoul, South Korea when he was in his 20s to visit some cousins out in L.A. |
| 1:45.0 | And there was just something about the West Coast that he said, I've got to live out here. |
| 1:51.0 | It was my first time in the United States. And I think one day I will live here, not Korea. |
| 2:03.0 | And he goes back to Seoul. He meets N-Young Lee. They get married and they honeymoon all places West Coast. |
| 2:10.0 | They go Los Angeles, Las Vegas, they go to Grand Canyon. And somehow his dream becomes hers as well. |
| 2:18.0 | The gang was born in 2001, and Sonny's daughter was born two years later. |
| 2:23.0 | And it was at that point that the parents really redoubled their efforts to move to the United States. |
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