Leslee Holliday, Baseball Wife
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Episode 160
Leslee and Matt Holliday have been married for 17 years. She is the mom to four children, 3 boys and a girl.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Leslee Holliday about being a baseball wife, how she reacted when her husband Matt decided he wanted to play baseball again, where her faith in Christ began, what a WAG is in baseball, and how she stays grounded in Christ when life gets chaotic and uncertain.
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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 Leslie Holiday, wife to MLB player from the Rockies, Matt Holiday, is sponsored by Compassion International. |
| 0:29.9 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 0:33.2 | For $38, you can make a difference, $38 a month in a child's life. I mean, we're talking about food, |
| 0:40.6 | education, medical care, vocational training, all done in the name of Jesus, $38 a month, |
| 0:47.1 | and you make a difference releasing a child from poverty. Compassion does it right. They're the most |
| 0:52.9 | trusted child development ministry in the world, |
| 0:56.1 | and we're proud to be partnering with them. I sponsor a child, my wife, my daughter, myself. We sponsor a |
| 1:02.2 | 13-year-old boy from Haiti, and it is the best $38 that we spend every single month. Go to |
| 1:07.6 | compassion.com slash sports spectrum and sponsor a child today. |
| 1:13.7 | Today's guest on the podcast is Leslie Holiday. Leslie is the wife to MLB player, Colorado |
| 1:20.8 | Rockies veteran Matt Holiday. And this is a fun podcast because we talk to Leslie just about what |
| 1:26.7 | it's like to be a baseball wife. |
| 1:29.8 | Leslie and Matt were married December 30th of 2000. |
| 1:33.2 | They actually met on a blind date in 1999. |
| 1:35.8 | We didn't get a chance to tell that story here on the podcast. |
| 1:38.2 | Maybe we'll have Matt and Leslie back on and share that story sometime. |
| 1:42.0 | But Leslie is the mom to four children, three boys and a |
| 1:45.2 | girl. Their ages are 14, 11, 8, and 5. So life is busy just being a mom. But then it's the |
| 1:51.7 | uncertainty and the kind of chaos that comes with being a baseball wife. And Leslie is a great |
| 1:58.9 | example of someone who's had to walk through this for a very long time with her husband. |
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