Dan Venezia - Former pro baseball player on two near-death experiences and a journey back to faith
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dan Venezia is a former pro baseball player who was selected in the 36th round of the 1993 MLB Amateur Draft by the Minnesota Twins after a stellar college career at Concordia University in New York. He played three seasons of minor league baseball before his career came to an end at the age of 23.
Today on the podcast we talk to Dan Venezia about being drafted by the Twins, playing against one of his childhood heroes, surviving two near-death experiences and how that brought him back to Jesus.
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