Bob Bennett Interview on the Song About Baseball

Joe caught up with Bob Bennett, talking about the impact his Dad had on him, and the first time he shared the Song about Baseball with him.

Transcription:

Joe:

AM 630 KCIS. That’s Bob Bennett with a song about baseball. Sometimes songs are written about frivolous, carefree subjects, and sometimes they’re not.

Bob:

My father had a serious heart attack and was being taken to a hospital, and I received an old school landline phone call saying, your father’s being taken to the hospital. Come now. So I had about a half hour drive north of where I lived, and as I was driving, not really knowing whether… No cell phones, no nothing. So this was, I’m not knowing whether or not I’m going to see my dad alive ever again. And of all the things that are crossing through my mind, the one thing that occurs to me is, oh my goodness, this is the man who came to all my little league games. I was such a horrible little league bass player, ball player, honestly. I mean, I could barely wear the uniform, much less play the game. And my dad came to every one of my games. And what happened is that the Lord actually spared my father. And we had him for some very good years following that. But after I wrote a song about baseball, I actually sang it for my father. And two things happened in that room with just him and me. Number one, I made it all the way through the song to sing for my dad without crying. And my dad didn’t quite make it without crying.