Daniel Ponce de Leon - St. Louis Cardinals Pitcher
Sports Spectrum Podcast
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Ponce de Leon is a pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals. His new book "ONE LINE DRIVE" depicts his story of being struck in the head by a line drive while pitching in AAA with Memphis in May of 2017. And after emergency brain surgery and multiple weeks in the hospital, he was able to make it back on the mound to pitch.
In July of 2018, he made his MLB debut and pitched 7 innings of no-hit ball against the Reds.
Today on the podcast, Daniel talks about writing his first book, why Jesus is the most important thing in his life and why he wants others to experience that as well, preparing for the 2021 season, becoming a dad for the 3rd time and the importance of his family and friends to support him during the most difficult time in his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:13.0 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:18.8 | I am Jason Romano. |
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| 1:25.3 | March 19th, and it's called Get in the Game with Scott Limebrink. |
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| 1:43.7 | and the idea, the concept of that podcast with Scott Limebrink is to talk to people in the world of sports on serving. |
| 1:52.9 | What does it look like to give back? |
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