Lee Dae-ho was overwhelmed with emotion as he remembered his late grandmother.
On the 25th broadcast of SBS's "Same Bed, Different Dreams 2," Lee Dae-ho said, "My father passed away when I was 3, and my mother remarried early. I lived with my grandmother and my youngest uncle. Our home was poor, so it wasn't easy to pay the baseball club fees. It took a lot of money for uniforms and snacks, so I thought a lot about starting baseball," reflecting on his childhood.
He added, "I could play baseball because my grandmother was there. My grandmother used to wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the market and sell vegetables, giving me pocket money. In middle school, I needed 2,000 won for transportation every day, and she gave that to me daily. She struggled a lot raising me. I wasn't her child, so she didn't have to go to that extent, but she did it for me."
"Especially, if I needed to buy equipment, she'd pawn her double ring to buy it for me. If I needed money, she'd go to the pawnshop. She went there about 30 times. Back then, I felt a strong obligation to work hard for my grandmother rather than to become a professional baseball player. Some students would run away when seniors yelled at them, but I didn't want to waste that time, so I never ran away," he said, drawing attention.
However, Lee Dae-ho's grandmother passed away when he was a sophomore in high school. Lee Dae-ho revealed, "My grandmother passed away after having such a hard life. I started baseball to give her a good life, so all my dreams disappeared. I lost the desire to play baseball. I didn't even want to go to school. I thought, 'What's the point of earning money and playing baseball?''
He then mentioned, "At that time, my coach said, 'Your grandmother will be watching over you from heaven, what are you going to do? Let's not deviate and give it a try.' I did my best, and that's how I ended up here," which touched viewers as he became emotional.
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