Darryl Strawberry - New York Mets legend on recovering from a heart attack and having his No. 18 retired

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Darryl Strawberry is a former MLB player and was the No. 1 overall selection in the 1980 MLB Amateur Draft by the New York Mets. He made his MLB debut in May 1983 and would go on to play 17 seasons with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants and Yankees. He is an eight-time MLB All-Star and a four-time World Series champion.

In 2010, Strawberry was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame and on June 1, 2024, Strawberry’s number 18 jersey will be retired by the Mets.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Darryl Strawberry on his number being retired by his former team, suffering a heart attack on March 11, 2024, trusting in God’s healing and continuing to live the rest of his life for Jesus.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys, today on Sports Spectrum.
0:02.2	Darryl Strawberry returns to the show, eight-time MLB All-Star, New York Mets legend, four-time World Series champion.
0:10.6	And today's a little different of a conversation because just last month, Darryl Strawberry had a heart attack.
0:16.9	It's the day before his birthday, his 62nd birthday, and he had a heart attack, and he's made it through.
0:23.2	Praise God.
0:24.2	He got to the hospital, and he's going to share all about what that experience was like.
0:29.6	And Daryl's been a traveling evangelist.
0:31.2	He's been a guy that goes around the country and shares the gospel, shares about a lot of the struggles that he's walked through and how
0:38.3	Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And now that traveling's had to stop a little bit.
0:45.3	So we talked to Daryl about that. He's also getting his number 18 retired by the New York Mets
0:52.2	on June 1st. And I wanted to ask him as a guy who grew up as a Mets fan, grew up as a Daryl Strawberry fan,
0:59.0	how that feels that the Mets have decided to retire his number 18.
1:03.8	It's Daryl Strawberry.
1:05.2	I'm excited.
1:06.1	One of my childhood heroes that's coming up in just a moment here on Sports Spectrum.
1:09.7	I'm really excited for a couple things as well, not just the Daryl Strawberry interview,
1:13.3	but I don't know if you guys have noticed, but our YouTube channel and our Twitter page
1:17.8	have been wonderful places with Sports Spectrum to share full-length video interviews.
1:25.4	And so this year in 2024, we've done a wonderful job, I think, the team of
1:29.0	Sports Spectrum, to increase the quality of our video content. And we wanted to record all of our
1:35.1	podcast now video-wise and share them with you. In the past, it's just the audio version of the
1:40.8	podcast, and that's great. But now we're in a different place, and we want you to see and watch the podcast as well.
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