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Native Son
For Cleveland Indians' reliever Danny Graves, Major League Baseball's only Vietnamese-born player, the contrast between a field with four bases and a field strewn with land mines couldn't be greater. The son of an American serviceman and Vietnamese woman, he was raised in Florida with little knowledge of the country his family fled in 1974. Graves, who made his major league debut in 1996, has always been curious about his past, and prodded his mother, Thao, to reveal details for many years. Recently, she agreed to return to the country they left over three decades ago.
Graves and his mother traveled to Vietnam with a delegation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which, with significant support from Major League Baseball, sought to introduce baseball to the country. For parent and child, it was a process of self-discovery, as they visited the apartment building the family lived in before the fall of Saigon and reunited with relatives they had not seen in 31 years. Danny was given the chance to share his life with the children of Vietnam, and in return, they helped him understand his heritage. Bryant Gumbel chronicles this inspiring journey.
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