Darryl Strawberry, 4-time World Series Champion
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Darryl Strawberry is an 8-time All-Star and 4-time World Series champion who played 17 MLB seasons with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants and Yankees.
He joined us back in January of 2018, Episode 68 of the podcast to talk about his baseball success, his fall from grace, and the redemption that took place after submitting his life to Christ.
On this throwback edition of the interview, Darryl shares why he is traveling the world and living as an evangelist working for the Lord.
You can listen to the entire interview with Darryl Strawberry by clicking here or by listening everywhere podcasts are found including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and iHeart Radio.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of Sports Spectrum's podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:25.7 | Today we're going to go back to January of 2018, January 4th, 2018. |
| 0:32.2 | Episode number 68 of the Sports Spectrum podcast with four-time World Series champion, |
| 0:39.5 | eight-time Major League Baseball All-Star selection. |
| 0:42.5 | Darrell Strawberry joined us on the podcast. |
| 0:46.1 | Darrell, of course, won a World Series with the Mets in 1986 |
| 0:49.1 | and is the New York Mets all-time leader in career home runs with 252 |
| 0:55.2 | and inducted into that team's Hall of Fame in 2010. |
| 0:59.7 | Later in his career, he was part of three World Series teams with the New York Yankees, |
| 1:04.4 | 1996, 1998, and 1999. |
| 1:09.5 | Off the field, Daryl struggled quite a bit with addiction for most of his adult life. |
| 1:15.0 | Drugs, alcohol, depression, crime, lots of stuff that Daryl got caught up in that was not good. |
| 1:23.0 | But he has turned his life around and actually better said, Jesus has turned his life around. |
| 1:29.4 | And Daryl is now an evangelist who travels all across the country telling people about the saving |
| 1:35.2 | grace and hope found in Jesus Christ. |
| 1:38.0 | And it was great to talk to Daryl, one of my heroes, one of my favorite people. |
| 1:43.0 | And this was again, episode number 68. |
| 1:45.7 | Take a listen to a portion of our conversation from back in January, 2018, with Daryl Strawberry. |
| 1:58.0 | When we first met, this was 2009 during our, when I was working at ESPN, you had come, you were promoting your book. |
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