Parker Byrd - East Carolina baseball player on his leg amputation and trusting God's plan
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4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Parker Byrd is a college baseball player at East Carolina University. He was rated the 75th best shortstop nationally in high school and committed to East Carolina in 2022. On July 23, 2022, he was in a boating accident and had his right leg amputated. In February 2024, he returned to the field and became the first Division 1 baseball player to ever compete in a game with a prosthetic leg.
Today on the podcast, Parker Byrd shares his powerful story of overcoming a lost leg to return to the baseball field. Parker talks about trusting in the Lord in the midst of losing his leg and seeing God’s providence on full display.
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| 0:33.1 | I'm Matt Forte with my man Jason Romano. |
| 0:35.6 | And again, we have a great guest today. We got my man, Parker Beard on here from North Carolina, standout baseball player over at ECU. And man, he has one heck of a testimony. So Parker, how you doing, man? Welcome to the show. I'm doing great, man. I appreciate you guys having me on. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. |
| 0:53.1 | So let's get into it. Man, let's just learn a little bit about you. I don't want to tell everybody you run down your stats and things like that. But just, you know, who is Parker? Who is it to you? Who is Parker? Yeah, I'm a kid from a little place called Lornerberg, North Carolina. It's a small town around the border of North and South Carolina. grew up with both my parents in the house. |
| 1:12.5 | I have two younger sisters, Grayson, who's 18, and Brindley, who is 12 years |
| 1:19.5 | old, and they're really my best friends. I have a small group of core friends and I've been |
| 1:25.2 | friends with them since I was about three years old. So I just am a'm a guy that loves God, loves baseball, and I just want to keep living out my |
| 1:33.8 | dreams. |
| 1:35.1 | Well, how's it, how's it being a big brother to, you know, two sisters? |
| 1:38.9 | I had one older brother. |
| 1:40.6 | I have one older brother. |
| 1:41.6 | And, you know, I didn't have any girls in the house besides my |
| 1:44.8 | mom. I know that's probably a big difference than growing up with sisters than with brothers. |
| 1:49.2 | So how was that? Yeah, it's awesome, man. So growing up as the only dude in the house besides my dad, |
| 1:57.0 | I mean, it was pretty cool just because, I mean, girls are so much different to guys in |
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