Legendary Kentucky baseball coach Keith Madison on finding his identity in Christ

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🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Keith Madison served for 25 years as the head baseball coach with the University of Kentucky. Hired at the age of 26 in 1979, he was the youngest head baseball coach in NCAA Division One at the time.

He is the winningest coach in Kentucky Wildcasts history with 737 career victories and was inducted into the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.

For many years after coaching, Keith served with SCORE international, a Christian Mission Organization leading players and coaches on short term baseball mission trips to the Dominican Republic.

Today on the podcast, Keith shares about his coaching journey, growing up in the 60's, signing a pro baseball contract at 17 years old, walking with God during his wife's breast cancer battle and finding his identity in something other than baseball.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, this episode of Sports Spectrums podcast is presented by our newest partner, Operation Christmas Child, a project of the Christian International Relief Organization, Samaritans Purse, the world's largest Christmas project of its kind.
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1:12.5	Operation Christmas Child.
1:22.6	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.
1:29.3	Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. And welcome everyone to the show. I am Jason. This is the Sports Spectrum
1:34.8	podcast. We got a great conversation today with Keith Madison. I love talking to Keith. I'll tell you
1:40.8	about him in a second, but man, this was so much fun to reminisce with Keith
1:45.3	Madison, a guy who's been around baseball for a very long time, and now he's using baseball
1:50.1	as a way to get people to hear about Jesus, and I loved it. It was so awesome to talk to Keith.
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