Clint Hurdle - Former MLB Manager

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🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Episode 457

Clint Hurdle has been a staple in Major League Baseball for over forty years. He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the first round (ninth overall) of the 1975 MLB Draft and just two years later, made his MLB debut. A member of the 1980 American League championship team in Kansas City, Hurdle would play for seven more years until retiring in 1987.

After his playing days ended, Hurdle went into coaching in 1988 and 14 years later, would be named the manager of the Colorado Rockies. During his time with Colorado, he would lead the Rockies to the National League title and a trip to the World Series in 2007.

After his time in Colorado ended in 2010, he would sign on to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2011 where he led the Bucs to three straight playoff appearances in 2013, 2014, and 2015. In 2013, he was named Sporting News NL Manager of the Year.

In September of 2019, he was relieved of his duties as manager of the Pirates.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Clint Hurdle about adjusting to life away from baseball, where his faith in Jesus began, how a crisis of faith in his early forties helped him grow closer to the Lord, how he lived his faith out as a manager and why spending time with his family right now is his number one priority.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum.
0:22.1	I am Jason Romano.
0:23.1	It's great to have you joining us here on the program today and very excited about our guest, Clint Hurdle, long-time Major League Baseball manager with the Pirates and the Rockies.
0:34.3	Clint is awesome.
0:35.4	You're going to love his story.
0:36.4	You're going to love the conversation
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1:13.4	Clint Hurdle is our guest here on Sports Spectrum. Clint selected by the Kansas City Royals way back in 1975 in the first round of the MLB draft.
1:21.6	He was the ninth overall selection, made his Major League debut two years later in Kansas City.
1:27.1	He actually made the cover of
1:28.7	Sports Illustrated in 1978. And then he was a member of that 1980 American League championship team
1:35.7	with the Kansas City Royals and played a few more years in the majors with the Reds, a couple
1:40.6	stints with the Mets, and then with the Cardinals played his last game in the majors in
1:45.5	1987 and then went into coaching.
1:47.9	And he was in the Mets minor league system coaching until 1993 and then moved on to the Rockies
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