This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we are joined by special guest Ethan Bryan, author of A Year of Playing Catch,

along with many other books.

He's found himself in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the White House,

and he is self-proclaimed,

one of the best bench warmers from his high school junior varsity baseball team. Ethan, welcome to the show. What a joy and honor to be here. I'm going to have such a great time with this. I've got my little intro, but I don't really need to tell your life story. Why don't you tell us some of the details about your life and your own words, whatever you want to talk about, family, hobbies, anything that you'd like to share. You're welcome to do so.

That's a really broad question for an introduction, you know. Wow. So, okay, family, well, I'm a son

and a brother and a nephew, husband, and father.

I'm an uncle.

I'm a godfather.

For a year now, I've been a father-in-law.

It's really interesting, actually.

There's been words about it in the sports circles just in the last 24 hours about top-tier athletes who find their identity in their relationships, not in their accomplishments.

And it's very fun to, it's very grounding to define yourself by your relationships.

And it's very helpful, especially for the audience of this podcast. But additionally, I love playing

guitar. I was a worship leader for a decade and had a band and wrote songs.

I love playing board games with my family.

There was a season, especially when the girls were young.

I think I went something like two years between winning games of Candy Land.

It was awful.

I'm an avid fan of donuts and Dr. Pepper. And so I try to exercise and move my body a lot so I can

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