How The World's Fastest Knuckleball Got Kenny Serwa A Contract With The Tigers | 'Baseball Isn't Boring'

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): We at Baseball Isn't Boring love a good story, and that's why it was an honor for Bradfo to catch up to Kenny Serwa. Just last week, the 27-year-old signed his first deal with a Major League Baseball organization - inking a minor-league pact with the Tigers - thanks in large part to one memorable throwing session. After spending years at multiple colleges and with Independent League team, Serwa changed his career trajectory thanks in part to the fastest knuckleball ever clocked (88.5 mph), which also happens to come with a mid-90's fastball. It's the kind of inspirational podcast that will get you excited for baseball to begin. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Kenny. How are you?
0:02.0	Good, good. How are you? Very, very, very thankful to be on.
0:05.1	Oh, man, it is, you know, Kenny, like the great thing about baseball, the baseball offseason is, you know, in the baseball season, we have a lot of great stories, a ton of great stories.
0:15.2	But there's also great stories in the offseason, which is why this sport is so great and really has become even
0:23.7	greater, in large part, I'm going to say it, because it's social media. I know there's a lot of
0:28.1	bad social media. There's a lot of good, man. There's a lot of good, right? I mean, yeah, absolutely.
0:35.6	So what, let me, before we get going, I could go through your story, and I will go through
0:43.5	your story a little bit.
0:44.9	But I want to give, I want to give you the opportunity to sort of give the correct
0:48.6	timeline of your baseball career and, you know, where you're from, going through high
0:54.0	school, going through college
0:55.4	and then going obviously independent league and where you've landed now so like you said i could do
1:02.4	it but i probably wouldn't would mess up that's why i'm going to rely on you kenny so go ahead
1:07.8	please please educate us all in terms of set the scene for what we're going to be talking about.
1:13.8	Okay, okay.
1:14.6	Yes.
1:14.9	So Kenny Serwa, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, went to St. Patrick High School.
1:20.1	After that, I started off at a small division to St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana.
1:26.0	It unfortunately closed down due to financial reasons.
1:28.9	Oh. I then transferred to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where I was there for three years.
1:35.9	And then COVID struck 2020, where I grad transferred to the University of Central Florida, was there for a year.
1:43.2	Then I went to the University of Dayton after that.
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