His father, Barton Tiegs, was an occasional mechanic who killed himself by drinking a fifth of whiskey and driving his Chevelle into a brick wall three weeks after his only child turned four. Michael’s mother, Cara Bonner Tiegs, raised him until her own death from lung cancer in 1990, at which point Michael went to live with his father’s sister, a state employee named June Jones, two towns over. That same fall, he was arrested for the first time and charged with misdemeanor theft for stealing bicycles; he logged one hundred hours of community service and was placed on six months’ juvenile probation. High school proved, perhaps predictably, to be difficult for Michael. He was undoubtedly one of the most skilled baseball players in the county, and one of its worst students to boot. He failed two courses as a sophomore—the same year he went 15-1 with a 2.06 ERA for the Pelham High Hornets—and was expelled from summer school as a formality after failing to attend a single session.
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