Adam Wainwright, St Louis Cardinals Pitcher - Episode 14
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Adam Wainwright is a starting pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals. He's been a mainstay with the organization now for 13 seasons. He's a 2-time World Series Champion (2006, 2011), a 3-time All Star and a 2-time Gold Glove winner.
Adam isn't just an elite Major League Baseball player, he's also a man of faith and has taken his love for Jesus into the mission field to start Big League Impact, a non-profit designed to serve and help those in need both in the U.S.A and overseas.
In this episode of the podcast, Adam shares why he believes pitchers are the best athletes, his love for hitting, how often he's asked about the Carlos Beltran pitch, how he stays grounded in his faith during a long MLB season, and why he started Big League Impact.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:08.7 | and sports collide. |
| 0:09.8 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:12.4 | This is episode number 14 of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | My name is Jason Romano, and we are grateful and thankful to have you joining us here on the program today. |
| 0:22.6 | As always, go to iTunes and leave a review if you like what you've heard here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:28.1 | Our last episode was with John Gordon, the best-selling author and world-renowned speaker, as I call him. |
| 0:35.5 | He's awesome. |
| 0:36.4 | He has a great story, not just a great story of |
| 0:39.1 | reconciliation and a great story of God kind of grabbing a hold of his heart, but really his story |
| 0:45.8 | of how he's connected into the sports world with the different coaches and different athletes and |
| 0:50.6 | people that he works with is really remarkable. And John's books are fantastic. |
| 0:55.6 | They're some of the best books I've ever read and some of the simplest messages you will ever |
| 0:59.6 | hear. John says he writes a book every year in three and a half weeks. That's just insane to me. |
| 1:04.2 | So if you missed episode number 13 with John Gordon, do go back and listen to that. I think you guys |
| 1:09.0 | will really enjoy that as always all of |
| 1:11.5 | our podcasts are archived on sportspectrum.com there's a simple tab right on there that says podcast just |
| 1:17.8 | click it and you get to see all of our podcasts we also have a show note that we publish every |
| 1:22.7 | Friday and every Tuesday when the podcast comes out so you can click on those as well at sportspectrum.com. |
| 1:29.1 | And lastly, we have a daily devotional every single day on sportspectrum.com at 6am, |
| 1:35.0 | a daily devotional is published. It's a quick, simple, maybe two to three minute read, |
| 1:39.6 | not even, maybe like a minute read, that allows you to connect with God and begin your day on the right foot |
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