Darryl Strawberry, 8-time MLB All-Star
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Darryl Strawberry returns for his second appearance on the podcast. Darryl was selected number one overall in the 1980 MLB Amateur Draft by the New York Mets He made his MLB debut in May of 1983 and was a 7-time All Star for the Mets from 1984-1990. A member of the 1986 World Championship team, Darryl's 252 career home runs remains at the top of the Mets all-time list.
In 1991, Strawberry signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After a short stint with the Giants, Strawberry returned to New York and helped the Yankees win 3 World Series titles in 1996, 1998 and 1999.
After many years of struggling with substance abuse and addiction, Darryl has been sober for over a decade now and spreads the good news of Jesus across the country as a traveling evangelist.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Darryl about why he is traveling the country sharing the Gospel, the biggest struggle for men, why being all in for Christ is the only way, his memories of Gary Carter and Mariano Rivera and his thoughts on guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens being kept out of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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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 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with New York Mets Hall of Famer, an eight-time |
| 0:25.1 | all-star Darrell Strawberry, is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 1:06.3 | Today's guest on the podcast, four-time World Series champion, eight-time MLB All-Star. Daryl |
| 1:12.5 | joins us here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. Daryl was a guest back on episode number 68 of the |
| 1:19.0 | podcast in early January of 2018, and we were able to catch up in early 2019 at a conference in Wisconsin where Darrell and I were both |
| 1:30.5 | speaking. It was a men's conference at Journey Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And just being there, |
| 1:38.3 | and Darrell being there and myself being there, I asked him if he'd be willing to sit down |
| 1:42.3 | for a few minutes and tape a podcast. And we were able to do that. A lot of good stuff here in this podcast. As you know or may not know, |
| 1:49.8 | Darrell had a great baseball career with the Mets and the Yankees and the Dodgers and the Giants |
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